Linguistic fieldwork is the backbone of an empirically-based science of linguistics. Firsthand information on barely known minority languages is essential for our under-standing of human languages, their structural properties and their genetic relation-ships...
Keywords: fieldwork, language description, language documentation, immersion filedwork
01/2007 | STUF Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagEarlier in the history of our discipline, it was sometimes assumed that the primary audience for linguistic documentation would be other linguists...
Keywords: endangered languages, documentation, fieldwork, Central Pomo
01/2007 | STUF Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag