Elena Mihas, Department of English

In the last fifteen years we’ve seen the rise of a branch of linguistics called documentary linguistics. The emergence of this discipline which is concerned with making and keeping records of the world’s small languages coincided with the major changes in the technology of linguistic data representation and maintenance, alongisde with the growing awareness that linguistic documentation has stakeholders both in the endangered language communities and the academic community. This talk aims to discuss the agenda, methods, and tools of linguistic documentation, using by way of example the researcher’s summer fieldtrip to the Peruvian Amazon.