AUSTRALIA

The systematic use and compilation of corpora for research on lesser-studied languages is still a relatively recent development. Nonetheless, many of our corpora contain good amounts of text data, collected over decades of research in communities in and around Australia. We are also developing new techniques of specific data collection and data mark-up that will enhance more systematic corpus linguistic research across diverse languages. It is our belief that making more of this material accessible to a broader public of scholars will be a valuable contribution to the empirical scientific study of language... Our researchers are at the forefront of developing different aspects of this emergent development in language research. Our corpora serve as the basis for grammars, dictionaries, and other studies (see Nafsan). In other projects, we make accessible older specimens of data from a range of languages of a particular area by digitizing older tape recordings, and presenting respective..