Talk:Linguistics and sustainability
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Sustainability of the different subfields of linguistics Sustainability & linguistic typology:
- working with second-hand sources, which have been created for academic purposes and do not in the majority of cases contribute the speaker communities - many of them are also produced by SIL in the context of missionary work --> typologists then use these sources which may have not been produced sustainably in the first place
- typological works include endangered languages in their samples, and as such typological research treats these languages as research objects - which raises the question on how sustainable is it include these languages, for which often only a very minimal description exists, in the studies? Would be more important to first document these languages properly?
