Methods in Contemporary Linguistics

✍ Scribed by Andrea Ender (editor); Adrian Leemann (editor); Bernhard Wälchli (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 550
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 247
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The present volume is a broad overview of methods and methodologies in linguistics, illustrated with examples from concrete research. It collects insights gained from a broad range of linguistic sub-disciplines, ranging from core disciplines to topics in cross-linguistic and language-internal diversity or to contributions towards language, space and society. Given its critical and innovative nature, the volume is a valuable source for students and researchers of a broad range of linguistic interests.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of contributors
Introduction
Part I: Core domains: From phonetics to pragmatics
Methodological reflections on the phonetic-phonological continuum, illustrated on the prosody of Swiss German dialects
Phonological typology, rhythm types and the phonetics-phonology interface. A methodological overview and three case studies on Italo-Romance dialects
Indirect measurement in morphological typology
Is a syntactic dialectology possible? Contributions from Swiss German
Methods for modalities
The making of a festschrift, is it a ritual?
Part II: Cross-linguistic and language internal diversity
Language description and linguistic typology
Multiple languages and multiple methods: Qualitative and quantitative ways of tapping into the multilingual repertoire
Koineization and cake baking: Reflections on methods in dialect contact research
Variation in a second language as a methodological challenge: Knowledge and use of relative clauses
Polish tea is Czech coffee: advantages and pitfalls in using a parallel corpus in linguistic research
Part III: Dynamic language
Historical text analysis: Underlying parameters and methodological procedures
Using methods of historical linguistics in Indo-European and Tibetan
Etyma, shouldered adzes and molecular variants
Experimental methods in psycholinguistics
Part IV: Writing
Coming to grips with dynamics and complexity. Methodological challenges to real-life writing research
Evolving methods for written representations of signed languages of the Deaf
Part V: Language, Space and Society
Crossing perspectives on onomastic methodology: Reflections on fieldwork in place name research. An essay in interactional onomastics
Does the territoriality principle work in practice? The principle’s applicability to the Romansh area in the Swiss Canton of Grisons
Procedures of methodological triangulation in sociolinguistic research on multilingualism
Subject index
Author index