Linguistic Fieldwork
A Practical Guide
2nd Edition
Published on 10. February 2015
XII, 285 pages
978-1-137-34080-1 (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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Series
Edition
2nd ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XII, 285 p.
File size
2,41 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-34080-1 (9781137340801)
DOI
10.1057/9781137340801
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
02/2015
2nd Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
€53.49
Shipment within 10-20 days
Book
02/2015
2nd Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
€53.49
Shipment within 10-20 days
Previous edition
E-Book
11/2007
1st Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
€96.29
Available for download
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
