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Language documentation is a rapidly emerging new field in linguistics which is concerned with the methods, tools and theoretical underpinnings for compiling a representative and lasting multipurpose record of a natural language. This volume presents in-depth introductions to major aspects of language documentation, including overviews on fieldwork ethics and data processing, guidelines for the basic annotation of digitally-stored multimedia corpora and a discussion on how to build and maintain a language archive. It combines theoretical and practical considerations and makes specific suggestions for the most common problems encountered in language documentation.
Key features
- textbook
- introduction to Language Documentation
- considers all common problems
List of contents
Editors' preface
Ch. 1: Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for? (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann)
Ch. 2: Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis (Arienne M. Dwyer)
Ch. 3: Fieldwork and community language work (Ulrike Mosel)
Ch. 4: Data and language documentation (Peter K. Austin)
Ch. 5: The ethnography of language and language documentation (Jane H. Hill)
Ch. 6: Documenting lexical knowledge (John B. Haviland)
Ch. 7: Prosody in language documentation (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann)
Ch. 8: Ethnography in language documentation (Bruna Franchetto)
Ch. 9: Linguistic annotation (Eva Schultze-Berndt)
Ch. 10: The challenges of segmenting spoken language (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann)
Ch. 11: Orthography development (Frank Seifart)
Ch. 12: Sketch grammar (Ulrike Mosel)
Ch. 13: Archiving challenges (Paul Trilsbeek, Peter Wittenburg)
Ch. 14: Linguistic documentation and the encoding of textual materials (Jost Gippert)
Ch. 15: Thick interfaces: mobilizing language documentation with multimedia (David Nathan)
Abbreviations and resources
References
Indexes:
Language Index
Subject Index
About the author
Jost Gippert , Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main, Germany; Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany;Ulrike Mosel, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany.
