Language Documentation as a Scientific Enterprise

I’m leading the Introduction to Language Documentation & Description course for graduate students at SOAS this term. I recently gave a lecture on why creating a corpus of annotated texts is useful, or even essential, for describing the grammar of a (previously unstudied) language. Most of my own descriptive analysis has been about a language

Manner demonstratives in Barayin

I’m signed up as a proofreader with Language Science Press, so I regularly get emails about upcoming books, and I can volunteer to proofread any chapters that look interesting. A few months ago, I proofread a chapter on manner demonstratives by Yvonne Treis and Tanya Nikitina in a book called Demonstratives in discourse. The chapter