doculect
noun/ˈdɒkjʊlɛkt/UK/ˈdɑkjulɛkt/US
Etymology
Blend of document + -lect, coined by American linguist Jeff Good in 2006.
Definitions
The lect (language variety) of a particular document.
- This is not the whole explanation why these Mayan doculects have an exceptionally high token frequency, but it explains part of the deviation.
- However, for the present study these texts are considered to be specific doculects, which might, or might not, be the 'same' language as described in other resources (e.g. grammars or spontaneous text collections).
- The most extreme case is illustrated by the doculect of McDonald and Wurm (1979), in which their consultant was being interviewed for materials in Garlali, but he preferred to speak Punthamara, so that is what he gave them.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for doculect. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA