Handbook of descriptive linguistic fieldwork

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chelliah Shobhana Lakshmi, 1961-
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Reuse Willem Joseph de, 1955-
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: Dordrecht [Netherlands]
Publication Dates: c2011.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9026-3
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xix, 492 p.): ill.
ISBN: 9789048190263 (electronic bk.)
9048190266 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: H0
CLC: H0-62
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Definition and goals of descriptive linguistic fieldwork -- The history of linguistic fieldwork -- Choosing a language -- Field preparation: philological, practical. and psychological -- Fieldwork ethics: the rights and responsibilities of the fieldworker -- Native speakers and fieldworkers -- Planning sessions, note taking, and data management -- Lexicography in fieldwork -- Phonetic and phonological fieldwork -- What to expect in morphosyntactic typology and terminology -- Grammar gathering techniques -- Semantics, pragmatics, and text collection.