Real descriptions: Reflections on native speaker and non-native speaker descriptions of a language
Felix K. Ameka · 2006
There are 2,000 or 3,000 languages, for which we have no decent descrip-tion, that will pass into disuse within the next few generations. Trained lin-guists are urgently needed to document them. In most cases native speakers can be trained as linguists but in many instances an outsider is required.