This manual provides basic information concerning linguistic fieldwork. What is it? Why do it? The ethics involved...
Keywords: language description, grammar writing, fieldwork methodology, field methods courses
01/2007 | STUF Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagThe following is an account of fieldwork experience in the Old Order Mennonite community of Waterloo County, Ontario...
Keywords: Pennsylvania German, Old Order Mennonite community, language survival, fieldwork methodology, language attitudes
01/2007 | STUF Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagIn this paper I discuss my experience in working in the late 1950s on Konda, a previ-ously undescribed Dravidian language from Central India, in terms of its phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax...
Keywords: Dravidian languages, Konda, Proto-Dravidian, paradigms, fieldwork methodology
01/2007 | STUF Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagThis paper describes fieldwork experiences among the Goemai of Central Nigeria. It first introduces the fieldwork setting, and then focuses on one illustrative example: the investigation of property-denoting ('adjectival′) expressions...
Keywords: Chadic languages, Goemai, adjectival concepts, fieldwork methodology, semantic-based approach to fieldwork
01/2007 | STUF Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag