The Founding of Language Documentation & Conservation

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C), Nick Thieberger asked me to write a brief account of the founding of this journal. Before doing so, I should perhaps first note that LD&C, as well as the other activities carried out under the banner of language documentation and conservation at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM), are a natural extension of the activities of its Department of Linguistics (see http://ling.hawaii.edu).Since its establishment in 1963, fieldwork and language support activities, especially for languages of Asia and the Pacific, have been a major focus of the department.