Language documentation and description, Volume 2

187 pages : 21 cm. Table of Contents Editor's Preface List of Contributors Countering purism: confronting the emergence of new varieties in a training program for community language workers Margaret Florey Language endangerment, language documentation and capacity building: challenges from New Guinea William A. Foley 28 Dictionary making in endangered speech communities Ulrike Mosel Linguistic study by speakers: efforts of an Institute 39 55 59 71 E.Annamalai Capacity building for some endangered languages of Russia: Voices from Tundra and Taiga Tjeerd de Graaf and Hidetoshi Shiraishi Capacity building in an African context Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Language planning in West Africa - who writes the script? Friederike Lüpke 90 The need for capacity building in Mexico: Misión de Chichimecas, a case study 108 Yolanda Lastra Training speakers of indigenous languages of Latin America at a US university 122 Anthony C. Woodbury and Nora C. England Language documentation and archiving, or how to build a better corpus 140 Heidi Johnson Planning multimedia documentation David Nathan Documentation in practice: developing a linked media corpus of South Efate Nicholas Thieberger Reconceiving metadata: language documentation through thick and thin David Nathan and Peter K. Austin.…