Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork
The Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork is the most comprehensive reference on linguistic fieldwork on the market bringing together all the reader needs to carry out successful linguistic fieldwork. Based on the experiences of two veteran linguistic fieldworkers and advice from more than a twenty active fieldwork researchers, this handbook provides an encyclopedic review of current publications on linguistic fieldwork and surveys past and present approaches and solutions to problems in the field, and the historical, political, and social variables correlating with fieldwork in differe
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1 online resource (504 pages)
9789048190263, 9048190266
1058188115
Handbook of DescriptiveLinguistic Fieldwork; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter Synopsis of a Handbookof Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork; Chapter 3: The History of Linguistic Fieldwork; Chapter 4: Choosing a Language; Chapter 5: Field Preparation: Philological, Practical, and Psychological; Chapter 6: Fieldwork Ethics: The Rights and Responsibilities of the Fieldworker; Chapter 7: Native Speakers and Fieldworkers; Chapter 8: Planning Sessions, Note Taking, and Data Management. Chapter 9: Lexicography in FieldworkChapter 10: Phonetic and Phonological Fieldwork; Chapter 11: What to Expect in Morphosyntactic Typology and Terminology; Chapter 12: Grammar Gathering Techniques; Chapter 13: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Text Collection; Index
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