Essentials of Language DocumentationJost Gippert, Nikolaus Himmelmann, Ulrike Mosel Language documentation is a rapidly emerging new field in linguistics which is concerned with the methods, tools and theoretical underpinnings for compiling a representative and lasting multipurpose record of a natural language. This volume presents in-depth introductions to major aspects of language documentation, including overviews on fieldwork ethics and data processing, guidelines for the basic annotation of digitally-stored multimedia corpora and a discussion on how to build and maintain a language archive. It combines theoretical and practical considerations and makes specific suggestions for the most common problems encountered in language documentation. Key features
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Contents
Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork | 31 |
Fieldwork and community language work | 67 |
Data and language documentation | 87 |
Copyright | |
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analysis annotation archivist aspects audio basic boundaries Cambridge Chapter clitics communicative events context conventions corpus cultural Cupeño depositors descriptive developed dialect dictionary discourse discussion DoBeS documentary linguistics documentation project elicitation encoding endangered languages ethical ethnographic example field format further graphemes guage Guugu Yimithirr Himmelmann Hopi indigenous interaction interfaces intonation unit involved issues Jaminjung Karaim kind Kuikuro language archives language documentation language workers lexical database lexicon markup materials meaning metadata metalinguistic Miraña morpheme multimedia native speakers non-linguistic notes orthography phonetic transcription phonological pitch possible practice primary data problem produce prosodic recording reference relevant represent representation ritual Sasak Section segment semantic sentence sketch grammar specific speech community speech events spoken standard structure syllable Teop tier tion translation types Tzotzil Unicode Upper Xingu users utterance verb word writing systems