num_pages: 725
description: This work was the authors' response to a need they saw for methodology in field research. They give techniques for gathering and processing data from unwritten languages, and include questionnaires for many aspects of both language and culture. Examples of the latter are time, currency, measures, and kinship. This is the English translation of a work that was first published in French in three volumes (Bouquiaux, L. &amp; Thomas, Jacqueline M.C. (eds.), Enquête et description des langues à tradition orale. I L'enquête de terrain et l'analyse grammaticale. II.Approche linguistique (Questionnaires grammaticaux et phrases) III Approche thématique (Questionnaire technique et Guides thématiques). Paris, SELAF, 2nd ed., 1976). ForewordPrefaceTranslator's Preface Part Introduction to Fieldwork 1. General problems2. Material aspects of the study3. Gathering data4. Using the questionnaires5. Processing the data Part Concepts of Linguistic Analysis 1. Phonology2. Morphology3. Word-level analysis4. Grammatical categories5. Phrase-level analysis6. The level of grammatical functions7. Utterance level (enoncematic, clausematic)8. Recapitulation9. Bibliography 1. Instructions for the recording of linguistic data2. linguistic inventoly questionnaire3. Questionnaire for an extensive survey4. Phonological guide5. Morphology derivation and compounding6. Verb phrase7. The noun and the noun phrase8. Sentence types9. Sentence questionnaire 1. Traditional technologies2. Ethnobotany3. Ethnozoology4. Anatomy and physiology, animals and plants5. Instructions for collecting zoological and botanical specimens6. Sociological phenomena7. Psychological phenomena8. Names, measurement, and time9. Oral tradition10. Language contact11. Sociolinguistic questionnaire
language: English
title: Studying and Describing Unwritten Languages
titlecomplete: Studying and Describing Unwritten Languages
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publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics