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Chris -- 2025-05-10
From a LINGUIST list book review (http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-850.html):
“As with much of his previous work (e.g. Rampton 1995), data for this book come primarily from radio microphone recordings, supplanted by ethnographic observation at the school and interviews with participants.”I’m not sure how one would go about searching for similar examples, though. I find 125 raw Google hits for “supplant data”, but several of them appear to be some machine language (Java? XML?) with the format <supplant(data)>. Most of the others appear to actually mean “supplant”.
“When more librarians can dig into ILS data with their own hands, data planning will supplant data mining in our priorities”
“However, federation doesn’t supplant data warehousing.”
“Preclinical tests are not intended to supplant data derived from adequate and well-controlled trials in humans,”
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