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Michael Clyne
44-54 (complete pdf)
This paper argues for the inclusion of data from Australian studies of bilingualism and trilingualism in the Australian National Corpus. The paper underlines the importance of comparative corpora of community languages with varying typologies in contact, migration vintages, generations, and differing sociolinguistic histories. It points to theoretical advances that have resulted from such comparisons. As the great diversity of language contacts in Australia has generated research on an increasing range of languages, it would be a waste not to preserve the data for further research. Also, there is some overlap between ethnolectal Australian English and bilingual data. Much of the language contact data will be lost if it cannot be incorporated into the national corpus.
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Selected Proceedings of the 2008 HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: Mustering Languages
edited by Michael Haugh, Kate Burridge, Jean Mulder, and Pam Peters
Table of contents
ISBN 978-1-57473-435-5 library binding
vi+113 pages
publication date: 2009
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA