No0tes This research was supported by NSF Grant No. 9983258 ‘Linguistic Exploration’ and Grant No. 9910603 ‘International
Standards in Language Engineering (ISLE).’We are grateful to Dafydd Gibbon, David Nathan, Nicholas Ostler, and the Language
editors and anonymous reviewers for comments on earlier versions of this paper.
1For a lucid discussion of the terms ‘language documentation’ and ‘language description’ we refer the reader to Himmelmann
(1998).
2http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/cumming/WordForLinguists/Interlinear.htm
3http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/
4http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/research/projects/jiwarli/gloss.html
5http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/apache/ChiMesc2.html
6http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AborigPages/LANG/GAMDICT/GAMDICT.HTM
7http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb/fieldwork/
8http://www.cnc.bc.ca/yinkadene/dakinfo/dulktop.htm
9 Our purpose in citing specific examples is not to single them out for criticism, but to show how serious work by conscientious
scholars has grappled with a host of technical problems in the course of exploring a large space of imperfect solutions.
10http://fonetiek-6.leidenuniv.nl/pil/stresstyp/stresstyp.html
11http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/CBOLD/
12http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/Maliseet/dictionary/index.html
13http://ingush.berkeley.edu:7012/BITC.html
14http://www.rosettaproject.org:8080/live/
15Further examples may be found on SIL’s page on Linguistic Computing Resources http://www.sil.org/linguistics/
computing.html, on the Linguistic Exploration page http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/, and on the Linguistic
Annotation page http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/.
16http://www.sil.org/computing/shoebox/
17http://fieldworks.sil.org/
18http://fonsg3.hum.uva.nl/praat/
19http://www.sil.org/computing/speechtools/speechanalyzier.htm
20http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/
21http://www.shlrc.mq.edu.au/emu/
22http://sf.net/projects/agtk/
23http://www.etca.fr/CTA/gip/Projets/Transcriber/
24http://sf.net/projects/agtk/
25http://www.xrce.xerox.com/research/mltt/fst/
26http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/pc-parse.html
27http://www.sil.org/LinguaLinks/LingWksh.html
28http://www.sumerian.org/
29http://www.ailla.org/
30http://www.rosettaproject.org/
31http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/
32http://195.83.92.32/index.html.en
33http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/
34http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/archives.html
35http://www.language-archives.org/
36http:///www.ldc.upenn.edu/
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37http://registry.dfki.de/
38 Celebrated early grammarians include P¯an. in¯ı (5th century BC), Dionysius of Thrace (2nd century BC), and Hesychius of
Alexandria (5th century AD).
39http://www.unicode.org/
40http://xml.coverpages.org/sgml.html
41http://www.w3.org/XML/
42http://www.language-archives.org/
43http://www.linguistlist.org/olac/
44http://www.openarchives.org/
45http://www.mpi.nl/world/ISLE/documents/draft/ISLE_MetaData_2.5.pdf
46http://dublincore.org/
47http://www.linguistlist.org/olac/
48http://www.sil.org/silewp/citation.html
49http://www.doi.org/
50http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/
51http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/
52http://www.iasa-web.org/
53http://www.clir.org/
54http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/
55http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/audio/
56http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg/
57http://www.oclc.org/research/pmwg/
58http://www.rlg.org/
59http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/ref_model.html
60http://www.archive.org/
61http://lockss.stanford.edu/
62http://www.language-archives.org/
63http://www.opensource.org/
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