ABSTRACT
In this paper we explore the relationship between language documentation and revitalization, highlighting some methodological issues that emerge. We argue that work on both documentation and revitalization has much to gain from working together more closely, in order to produce documentary corpora that are more relevant to communities and useful for language revitalization. We argue that documentation should pay more attention to local histories, ethnographies, goals and management of language use, as well as the crucially important but poorly researched beliefs and ideologies about language and language use held by both speech communities and researchers.
