Language Documentation and Conservation

LD&C publishes original research on all topics related to language documentation and conservation, including, but not limited to: the goals of language documentation, speech community collaboration, data management, fieldwork methods and methodologies, ethical issues, orthography design, reference grammar design, lexicography, ethnolinguistic vitality assessment, archiving, language planning, areal survey reports, short field reports, as well as issues related to language maintenance, preservation, revitalization, and reclamation.

National Foreign Language Resource Center remains the primary financial sponsor of LD&C. The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Linguistics Department also continues to support LD&C by providing Graduate Assistantship positions and stipends for two of the journal’s editorial staff: Copy Editor and Web Production Editor.