Linguistic fieldwork
By: edited by Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff.
Contributors: Newman, Paul, 1937-; Ratliff, Martha Susan, 1946-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Linguistics -- Field work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: PAUL NEWMAN AND MARTHA RATLIFF; title: I Fieldwork as a state of mind; title: LARRY M. HYMAN; title: 2 Who shapes the record: the speaker and the linguist; title: MARIANNE MITHUN; title: 3 Places and people: field sites and informants; title: GERRIT J. DIMMENDAAL; title: 4 Ulwa (Southern Sumu): the beginnings of a language research; title: project; title: KEN HALE; title: 5 Escaping Eurocentrism: fieldwork as a process of unlearning; title: DAVID GIL; title: 6 Surprises in Sutherland: linguistic variability amidst social; title: uniformity; title: NANCY C. DORIAN; title: 7 The role of text collection and elicitation in linguistic fieldwork; title: SHOBHANA L. CHELLIAH; title: 8 Monolingual field research; title: DANIEL L. EVERETT; title: 9 The give and take of fieldwork: noun classes and other concerns; title: in Fatick, Senegal; title: FIONA MC LAUGHLIN AND THIERNO SEYDOU SALL; title: 10 Phonetic fieldwork; title: IAN MADDIESON; title: 11 Learning as one goes; title: KEREN RICE; title: 12 The last speaker is dead - long live the last speaker!; title: NICHOLAS EVANS; title: Index.