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Linguistic Fieldwork

A Practical Guide

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Authors:
  1. Claire Bowern

    1. Yale University, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Claire Bowern
    Pages 1-17

  3. Technology in the Field

    • Claire Bowern
    Pages 18-36

  4. Starting to Work on a Language

    • Claire Bowern
    Pages 37-50

  5. Data Organisation and Archiving

    • Claire Bowern
    Pages 51-72

  6. Fieldwork on Phonetics and Phonology

    • Claire Bowern
    Pages 73-84

  7. Eliciting: Basic Morphology and Syntax

    • Claire Bowern
    Pages 85-104

  8. Further Morphology and Syntax

    • Claire Bowern
    Pages 105-121

  9. Lexical and Semantic Data

    • Claire Bowern
    Pages 122-130

  10. Discourse, Pragmatics, and Narrative Data

    • Claire Bowern
    Pages 131-141

  11. Consultants and Field Locations

    • Claire Bowern
    Pages 142-166

  12. Ethical Field Research

    • Claire Bowern
    Pages 167-189

  13. Grant Application Writing

    • Claire Bowern
    Pages 190-204

  14. Working with Existing Materials

    • Claire Bowern
    Pages 205-214

  15. Fieldwork Results

    • Claire Bowern
    Pages 215-233

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 234-285
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Yale University, USA

    Claire Bowern

About the author

Claire Bowern is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Yale University, USA. She is a field and historical linguist with a focus on the highly endangered languages of Northern Australia. She is past Chair of the Linguistic Society of America's Ethics Committee and Associate Editor at Language.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Linguistic Fieldwork

  • Book Subtitle: A Practical Guide

  • Authors: Claire Bowern

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137340801

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-34078-8Published: 12 February 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-34079-5Published: 12 February 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-34080-1Published: 10 February 2015

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XII, 285

  • Topics: Applied Linguistics

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