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Working Together: The interface between researchers and the native people - The Trumai case

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Abstract

There is no unified policy for preservation and/or documentation of endangered languages. Each case engenders its own issues and constraints due to its particular cultural and historical situation. Documentation of the Amazonian Trumai language and culture illustrates the intricacy of the parameters that run the gamut from globalisation to local and punctual conflicts, and from the state of world affairs to quarrels over chiefdom inheritance.

Abstract

There is no unified policy for preservation and/or documentation of endangered languages. Each case engenders its own issues and constraints due to its particular cultural and historical situation. Documentation of the Amazonian Trumai language and culture illustrates the intricacy of the parameters that run the gamut from globalisation to local and punctual conflicts, and from the state of world affairs to quarrels over chiefdom inheritance.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. A world of many voices: Editors' introduction 1
  4. Sri Lanka Malay revisited: Genesis and classification 13
  5. Working Together: The interface between researchers and the native people - The Trumai case 43
  6. Tense, Aspect and Mood in Awetí verb-paradigms: Analytic and synthetic forms. 67
  7. Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor. 111
  8. Language, ritual and historical reconstruction: Towards a linguistic, ethnographical and archaeological account of Upper Xingu Society 129
  9. Endangered Caucasian languages in Georgia: Linguistic parameters of language endangerment 159
  10. Contact, attrition and shift in two Chaco languages: The cases of Tapiete and Vilela 195
  11. Tofa language change and terminal generation speakers 243
  12. Hocank's challenge to morphological theory 271
  13. A Preliminary study of same-turn self-repair initiation in Wichita conversation 317
  14. Multimedia analysis in documentation projects: Kinship, interrogatives and reciprocals in ǂ Akhoe Hai ǁ om 355
  15. Index 371
Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages
This chapter is in the book Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.78.03bec

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. A world of many voices: Editors' introduction 1
  4. Sri Lanka Malay revisited: Genesis and classification 13
  5. Working Together: The interface between researchers and the native people - The Trumai case 43
  6. Tense, Aspect and Mood in Awetí verb-paradigms: Analytic and synthetic forms. 67
  7. Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor. 111
  8. Language, ritual and historical reconstruction: Towards a linguistic, ethnographical and archaeological account of Upper Xingu Society 129
  9. Endangered Caucasian languages in Georgia: Linguistic parameters of language endangerment 159
  10. Contact, attrition and shift in two Chaco languages: The cases of Tapiete and Vilela 195
  11. Tofa language change and terminal generation speakers 243
  12. Hocank's challenge to morphological theory 271
  13. A Preliminary study of same-turn self-repair initiation in Wichita conversation 317
  14. Multimedia analysis in documentation projects: Kinship, interrogatives and reciprocals in ǂ Akhoe Hai ǁ om 355
  15. Index 371
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