عنوان

Linguistic fieldwork

(Number (ISBN

0521669375

English Book

Title Proper

Linguistic fieldwork

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, UK ;New York, NY

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2001

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 288 p. , ill. , 24 cm.

Text of Note

Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- PAUL NEWMAN AND MARTHA RATLIFF -- I Fieldwork as a state of mind -- LARRY M. HYMAN -- 2 Who shapes the record: the speaker and the linguist -- MARIANNE MITHUN -- 3 Places and people: field sites and informants -- GERRIT J. DIMMENDAAL -- 4 Ulwa (Southern Sumu): the beginnings of a language research -- project -- KEN HALE -- 5 Escaping Eurocentrism: fieldwork as a process of unlearning -- DAVID GIL -- 6 Surprises in Sutherland: linguistic variability amidst social -- uniformity -- NANCY C. DORIAN -- 7 The role of text collection and elicitation in linguistic fieldwork -- SHOBHANA L. CHELLIAH -- 8 Monolingual field research -- DANIEL L. EVERETT -- 9 The give and take of fieldwork: noun classes and other concerns -- in Fatick, Senegal -- FIONA MC LAUGHLIN AND THIERNO SEYDOU SALL -- 10 Phonetic fieldwork -- IAN MADDIESON -- 11 Learning as one goes -- KEREN RICE -- 12 The last speaker is dead - long live the last speaker! -- NICHOLAS EVANS -- Index.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Entry Element

Linguistics, Fieldwork