OLAC Record oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/4606

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Title:		Languoid, Doculect, and Glossonym: Formalizing the Notion 'Language'
Bibliographic Citation:		Good, Jeff, Cysouw, Michael; 2013-12-19; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4606.
Creator:		Good, Jeff
		Cysouw, Michael
Date (W3CDTF):		2013-12-19
Description:		It is perfectly reasonable for laypeople and non-linguistic scholars to use names for languages without reflecting on the proper definition of the objects referred to by these names. Simply using a name like English or Witotoan suffices as an informal communicative designation for a particular language or a language group. However, for the linguistics community, which is by definition occupied with the details of languages and language variation, it is somewhat bizarre that there does not exist a proper technical apparatus to talk about intricate differences in opinion about the precise sense of a name like English or Witotoan when used in academic discussion. We propose three interrelated concepts—LANGUOID, DOCULECT, and GLOSSONYM—which provide a principled basis for discussion of different points of view about key issues, such as whether two varieties should be associated with the same language, and allow for a precise description of what exactly is being claimed by the use of a given genealogical or areal group name. The framework they provide should be especially useful to researchers who work on underdescribed languages where basic issues of classification remain unresolved.
Identifier:		Good, Jeff & Cysouw, Michael. 2013. Languoid, Doculect, and Glossonym: Formalizing the Notion 'Language'. LD&C 7.
Identifier (URI):		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4606
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Rights:		Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
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Subject:		Language, Dialect, Standardization, Languoid, Doculect, Glossonym
Table Of Contents:		cysouw_good.pdf
Type:		Article
Type (DCMI):		Text
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Citation:		Good, Jeff; Cysouw, Michael. 2013. Language Documentation and Conservation.
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