Linguistic Fieldwork: A Practical Guide

✍ Scribed by Claire Bowern (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Technology in the Field....Pages 18-36
Starting to Work on a Language....Pages 37-50
Data Organisation and Archiving....Pages 51-72
Fieldwork on Phonetics and Phonology....Pages 73-84
Eliciting: Basic Morphology and Syntax....Pages 85-104
Further Morphology and Syntax....Pages 105-121
Lexical and Semantic Data....Pages 122-130
Discourse, Pragmatics, and Narrative Data....Pages 131-141
Consultants and Field Locations....Pages 142-166
Ethical Field Research....Pages 167-189
Grant Application Writing....Pages 190-204
Working with Existing Materials....Pages 205-214
Fieldwork Results....Pages 215-233
Back Matter....Pages 234-285

✦ Subjects

Applied Linguistics