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 VerlagThis 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 VerlagAim of this issue is to bring together studies in Greek phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics that share a typological perspective on language description...
Keywords: typology, language description, Comparison, grammar, Modern Greek
01/2008 | STUF Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag