NSF REU Linguistics Field School: Fieldwork Guides

A peer-reviewed journal covering the following topics: "language documentation, data management, fieldwork methods, ethical issues, orthography design, reference grammar design, lexicography, methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality, biocultural diversity, archiving matters, language planning, areal survey reports, short field reports on endangered or underdocumented languages," and more.

A key introduction to linguistic fieldwork that accounts for the particular needs of documenting endangered languages. The handbook also evaluates new technologies for language documentation and data storage, and it provides guidance for working closely with indigenous communities and the ethical implications thereof.

"Deals in particular with the problems arising from the documentation of endangered languages. Deploying a mixture of methodology and practical advice and drawing on his own immense experience, Terry Crowley shows how to record, analyse, and describe a language in the field." [publisher's description]

"A beginner's guide, this textbook introduces the various stages of linguistic fieldwork, from the preparation of the work to the presentation of the results. The book covers 'traditional fieldwork' such as language description and documentation, as well as less typical methods, including language contact and quantitative studies with experiments or questionnaires." [publisher's description]

"A practical guide to all the steps in linguistic fieldwork, from planning where to go to applying for funding, to the first session on a new language to writing up the data and returning materials to communities. Offers practical advice for negotiating those interactions in a way that produces research which is of benefit both to linguists and to language speakers, with extra guidance for those working with endangered languages." [publisher's description]

Includes introductory chapters surveying the general enterprise of field research, as well as chapters exploring methods of eliciting data in eight major areas of current linguistic interest: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and dialectology, and historical linguistics. [publisher's description]