Front Matter

Editor's Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 3)

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Abstract

This volume arises from two one-day workshops held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London: one on 4th December 2004 entitled “Multi-disciplinary approaches to language documentation” and one on 12th February 2005 entitled “Language contact and variation in language documentation”.

The chapters for this volume are written up versions of the workshop presentations, plus two invited papers (by Dobrin and Harrison, both presented at the LSA Conference on Language Documentation held at Harvard University, July 2005). Language documentation is a relatively new research area and these papers make significant new contributions to the theory and practice of this emerging field, especially in the areas of inter-disciplinary approaches to documentation and ways of approaching variation and language contact in endangered language contexts. The papers are organised thematically according to these two topics.

How to Cite:

Austin, P., (2005) “Editor's Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 3)”, Language Documentation and Description 3, 5-11. doi: https://doi.org/10.25894/ldd271