Vortrag: Bringing new life to old text collections

BA/MA thesis inspiration

Many 19th and early 20th century linguists, missionaries and ethnologists were prolific collectors of folk stories. Nowadays, the stories often lie forgotten in books journals and archives -- inaccessible for researchers and speakers their languages. But often they are the only available texts in an underdocumented language. In my talk I hope to inspire you to bring new life to these collections.

Working with an old text collections can be your first independent language description project; for example for a BA or MA thesis project.
During my talk I will address the following questions:
- How can I find old text collections?
- How can I use them in a BA/MA thesis project?
- How can I make them more accessible?
- What problems may I encounter?
I will show several examples of text collections and talk about my own experiences editing and (hopefully soon) publishing a Modole text collection.

Info

Tag: 22.11.2024
Anfangszeit: 15:35
Dauer: 00:30
Raum: 00A02 CNMS
Track: Typologie und Variationslinguistik
Sprache: en

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