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Informationen zum Autor M. Ryan Bochnak is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, "Cross-linguistic Variation in the Semantics of Comparatives," investigated the semantics of comparative constructions in Washo (isolate/Hokan) and Luganda (Bantu).Lisa Matthewson is Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests center on semantic variation and universals, with specific attention to modality, tense, aspect, quantification, and presupposition. She has worked on St'at'imcets (Salish) since the early 1990s, on Gitksan (Tsimshianic) since 2010, and has recently begun investigating Niuean (Austronesian) and Tlingit (Na-Dene). Klappentext This volume brings together papers that discuss methodological issues in conducting elicitation on semantic topics in a fieldwork situation. Each author pairs explicit methodological proposals with concrete examples of their use in the field. The range of languages discussed span 11 language families and four continents. Zusammenfassung This volume brings together papers that discuss methodological issues in conducting elicitation on semantic topics in a fieldwork situation. Each author pairs explicit methodological proposals with concrete examples of their use in the field. The range of languages discussed span 11 language families and four continents. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction M. Ryan Bochnak and Lisa Matthewson Part 1: General Overview of Elicitation Techniques 1. A practical epistemology for semantic elicitation in the field and elsewhere Jurgen Bohnemeyer 2. The Problem with No-Nonsense Elicitation Plans (for semantic fieldwork) Meagan Louie Part 2: Techniques for Particular Semantic Domains 3. Documenting and Classifying Aspectual Classes Across Languages Leora Bar-el 4. Investigating gradable predicates, comparison, and degree constructions in underrepresented languages M. Ryan Bochnak and Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten 5. Targeted construction storyboards in semantic fieldwork Strang Burton and Lisa Matthewson 6. Reasoning about equivalence in semantic fieldwork Amy Rose Deal 7. Investigating D in Languages With and Without Articles Carrie Gillon Part 3: Using Language-Internal Evidence to Guide Semantic Fieldwork 8. Linguistically establishing discourse context: two case studies from Mayan languages Scott AnderBois and Robert Henderson 9. Semantic fieldwork on TAM Rebecca T. Cover 10. Deriving topic effects in Kiowa with semantics and pragmatics Andrew McKenzie 11. Reciprocity in Fieldwork and Theory Sarah E. Murray 12. Theories of meaning in the field: Temporal and aspectual reference Rebecca Cover and Judith Tonhauser ...
