Essentials of Language Documentation

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Jost Gippert, Nikolaus Himmelmann, Ulrike Mosel
Walter de Gruyter, 2006 - Computers - 424 pages

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

 

Contents

Chapter 2 Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis
31
Chapter 3 Fieldwork and community language work
67
Chapter 4 Data and language documentation
87
Chapter 5 The ethnography of language and language documentation
113
Chapter 6 Documenting lexical knowledge
129
Chapter 7 Prosody in language documentation
163
Chapter 8 Ethnography in language documentation
183
Chapter 9 Linguistic annotation
213
Chapter 12 Sketch grammar
300
Chapter 13 Archiving challenges
311
Chapter 14 Linguistic documentation and the encoding of textual materials
337
Mobilizing language documentation with multimedia
363
Abbreviations and resources
381
References
391
Language index
417
Subject index
419

Chapter 10 The challenges of segmenting spoken language
253
Chapter 11 Orthography development
275

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