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<div>A '''languoid''' (or 'language-like entity') is a set of [[lect]]s or [[language]]s that are grouped together for some purpose. In the simplest case, languoids are languages or [[dialect]]s, but [[genealogical group]]s of languages (or [[linguistic area|areal groups]], or indeed any other groups treated together by linguists for some reason) may also be considered together with languages and dialects and hence be subsumed with them under a single concept.<br />
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:::*''"a cover term for any type of lingual entity: language, dialect, family, language area, etc. It is roughly similar to the term ''taxon'' from biological taxonomy, except it is agnostic as to whether the relevant linguistic grouping is considered to be genealogical or areal (or based one some other possible criteria for grouping languages)"'' (Good & Hendryx-Parker 2006:5)<br />
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This term arose in the context of cross-linguistic databases, where it is often useful to refer to languages, groups of languages, and groups of lects with a single term. However, there are many day-to-day situations in which it is fruitful to remain agnostic about the kind of grouping proposed, e.g. when one is not certain whether a group of highly similar languages is a genealogical unit or a linguistic area. Another case of productive agnosticism is the perennial question whether a set of highly similar speech varieties should be called a language with different [[lect|lectal]] variants, or a low-level genealogical group consisting of different languages. In all these situations, the groups are perfectly legitimate languoids, though researcher might disagree about their status.<br />
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===Definition===<br />
In a very strict sense, a languoid can be defined recursively as a set of (lower-level) languoids. The lowest level languoid (needed to stop recursion) is a [[doculect]] (a "documented language variety"). Under this definition, any lect, language, family, or area is defined as a hierarchical ordering of sources.<br />
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===Origin===<br />
The term originated in a discussion between [[Michael Cysouw]] and [[Jeff Good]] in 2006 at the [[Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology]]. It consists of the root ''langu-'' (from English ''language'') and the suffix ''-oid'' ('X-like entity').<br />
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===Reference===<br />
*Good, Jeff & Calvin Hendryx-Parker. 2006. Modeling Contested Categorization in Linguistic Databases. In ''Proceedings of the EMELD 2006 Workshop on Digital Language Documentation: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art.'' Lansing, Michigan. June 20–22, 2006. [http://www.linguistlist.org/emeld/workshop/2006/papers/GoodHendryxParker-Modelling.pdf PDF]<br />
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[[Category:General]]</div>Cysouwhttp://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Doculect&diff=5882Doculect2008-04-10T08:34:30Z<p>Cysouw: </p>
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<div>The term '''doculect''' is sometimes used for a variety of a language that has been described or otherwise documented in a coherent way. The term was originally designed to refer to the lowest level [[languoid]] that linguistics can meaningfully refer to. In a more extreme view, even the pure mentioning of a speech variety in any source (possibly without any information about the language itself) can be seen as a doculect. In this view, a reference to a language in a classical source, in a traveler's diary, or in a census are also doculects. The use of the term '''doculect''' is meant to remind linguists of the fact that <br />
* the most basic entity of linguistic investigations (i.e. speech varieties) should not be assumed without explicitly mentioning any source;<br />
* languages show high internal variability, which implies that different documentations should not ''a priori'' be assumed to describe the same entity.<br />
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===Examples===<br />
For instance, two grammars of Egyptian Arabic describe two different doculects, even if they are both about, say, educated middle-class colloquial Cairo Arabic. The mere fact that there are two different descriptions makes the varieties described in them different doculects. Another example would be two different corpora, e.g. a corpus of French based on ''Le Monde'' and one based on ''Agence France Press''. Even though one would perhaps not expect any differences in the structure of the language between the two corpora, the two varieties are by definition different doculects. Also, when examples are given in a publication, based on personal knowledge of the author, or on personal communication between the author and a native speaker, these examples themselves form an (idiolectal) doculect.<br />
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===Origin===<br />
The term arose in discussions between [[Michael Cysouw]], [[Jeff Good]] and [[Martin Haspelmath]] in 2006 at the [[Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology]]. It is based on the term [[lect]] and the word ''documentation''.<br />
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:::''"Jeff Good (pers. comm.) has introduced the term ‘doculect’ to refer to the variety of the ‘language’ that ends up in the documentation."'' (Bowern 2008:8)<br />
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===References===<br />
[[Bowern, Claire]]. 2008. ''Linguistic fieldwork.'' New York: Palgrave Macmillan.<br />
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German [[Dokulekt]]<br />
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[[Category:General]]</div>Cysouwhttp://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=User:Cysouw&diff=2647User:Cysouw2007-07-19T09:48:46Z<p>Cysouw: New page: '''Michael Cysouw''' Department of Linguistics Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 Leipzig [http://www.eva.mpg.de/~cysouw/ homepage]</p>
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<div>'''Michael Cysouw'''<br />
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Department of Linguistics<br />
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology<br />
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Deutscher Platz 6<br />
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D-04103 Leipzig<br />
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[http://www.eva.mpg.de/~cysouw/ homepage]</div>Cysouwhttp://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Language_Catalogue_Network&diff=782Language Catalogue Network2007-06-28T20:57:49Z<p>Cysouw: New page: On 28th of June, a workshop took place at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig to discuss issues regarding the set-up of a language catalogue. At this informal...</p>
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<div>On 28th of June, a workshop took place at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig to discuss issues regarding the set-up of a language catalogue. At this informal workshop, ways in which linguists can collaborate towards the ambitious goal of creating a Comprehensive Language Catalogue were discussed. At the moment, all available language catalogues (such as Ruhlen 1987, Moseley & Asher 1994, Gordon 2005) are limited in the amount and quality of information on the world's languages that they provide. The program of the workshop can be found here [http://email.eva.mpg.de/~haspelmt/cat.html].<br />
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