Linguistic Fieldwork : A Practical Guide

Annotation Linguistic Fieldwork offers practical guidance on areas such as applying for funding, the first session on a new language, writing up the data and returning materials to communities. This expanded second edition provides new content on the results of research, on prosody elicitation, on field experiment design, and on working in complex syntax Linguistic Fieldwork Is A Practical Guide To All The Steps In Linguistic Fieldwork, From Planning Where To Go To Applying For Funding, To The First Session On A New Language To Writing Up The Data And Returning Materials To Communities. Field Research Is Not Like Working In The Lab With Chemicals: Both The Field Worker And Their Consultants Are Real People Who Interact In Complex Ways. Claire Bowern Offers Practical Advice For Negotiating Those Interactions In A Way That Produces Research Which Is Of Benefit Both To Linguists And To Language Speakers, With Extra Guidance For Those Working With Endangered Languages. This Revised And Expanded Second Edition Provides New Content On The Results Of Research, On Prosody Elicitation, On Field Experiment Design, And On Working In Complex Syntax. 1. Introduction -- 2. Technology In The Field -- 3. Starting To Work On A Language -- 4. Data Organisation And Archiving -- 5. Fieldwork On Phonetics And Phonology -- 6. Eliciting: Basic Morphology And Syntax -- 7. Further Morphology And Syntax -- 8. Lexical And Semantic Data -- 9. Discourse, Pragmatics And Narrative Data -- 10. Consultants And Field Locations -- 11. Ethical Field Research -- 12. Grant Application Writing -- 13. Working With Existing Materials -- 14. Fieldwork Results. Claire Bowern. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-17 Technology in the Field....Pages 18-36 Starting to Work on a Language....Pages 37-50 Data Organisation and Archiving....Pages 51-72 Fieldwork on Phonetics and Phonology....Pages 73-84 Eliciting: Basic Morphology and Syntax....Pages 85-104 Further Morphology and Syntax....Pages 105-121 Lexical and Semantic Data....Pages 122-130 Discourse, Pragmatics, and Narrative Data....Pages 131-141 Consultants and Field Locations....Pages 142-166 Ethical Field Research....Pages 167-189 Grant Application Writing....Pages 190-204 Working with Existing Materials....Pages 205-214 Fieldwork Results....Pages 215-233 Back Matter....Pages 234-285