Linguistic Fieldwork: A Practical Guide

✍ Scribed by Claire Bowern (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a practical guide to all aspects of linguistic fieldwork. It not only discusses techniques for working on the phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse of an undescribed language, but also considers field technology, grant application preparation, ethical research methods and problems which might arise when in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Technology in the Field....Pages 16-33
Starting to Work on a Language....Pages 34-46
Data Organization and Archiving....Pages 47-62
Fieldwork on Phonetics and Phonology....Pages 63-72
Eliciting: Basic Morphology and Syntax....Pages 73-92
Further Morphology and Syntax....Pages 93-106
Lexical and Semantic Data....Pages 107-114
Discourse, Pragmatics and Narrative Data....Pages 115-124
Consultants and Field Locations....Pages 125-147
Ethical Field Research....Pages 148-169
Grant Application Writing....Pages 170-183
Working with Existing Materials....Pages 184-192
Fieldwork Results....Pages 193-210
Back Matter....Pages 211-253

✦ Subjects

Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Phonology; Grammar