Linguistic Fieldwork
A Practical Guide
2nd Edition
Published on 12. February 2015
Book
Hardback
XII, 285 pages
978-1-137-34078-8 (ISBN)
Description
Linguistic Fieldwork offers practical guidance on areas such as applying for funding, the first session on a new language, writing up the data and returning materials to communities. This expanded second edition provides new content on the results of research, on prosody elicitation, on field experiment design, and on working in complex syntax.
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Edition
2nd ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XII, 285 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-34078-8 (9781137340788)
DOI
10.1057/9781137340801
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Claire Bowern is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Yale University, USA. She is a field and historical linguist with a focus on the highly endangered languages of Northern Australia. She is past Chair of the Linguistic Society of America's Ethics Committee and Associate Editor at Language.
Content
1. Introduction 2. Technology in the Field 3. Starting to Work on a Language 4. Data Organisation and Archiving 5. Fieldwork on Phonetics and Phonology 6. Eliciting: Basic Morphology and Syntax 7. Further Morphology and Syntax 8. Lexical and Semantic Data 9. Discourse, Pragmatics and Narrative Data 10. Consultants and Field Locations 11. Ethical Field Research 12. Grant Application Writing 13. Working with Existing Materials 14. Fieldwork Results