Incentives for publishing text corpora and multimedia documents: About a recent discussion on the Tibeto-Burman list
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In-depth language documentation is clearly a priority duty for linguists of our generation. This is what will remain as our most important legacy. It is also a major driving force for real advances in linguistics, as multimedia digital databases open up a tremendous potential for testing linguistic analyses and building computer models: a huge space opens up once we have a reliable, high-quality empirical basis for our studies. This point has been made eloquently in various forums; it can now...