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Essentials of Language Documentation

  • Edited by: Jost Gippert , Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and Ulrike Mosel
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2006
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Language documentation is a rapidly emerging new field in linguistics which is concerned with the methods, tools and theoretical underpinnings for compiling a representative and lasting multipurpose record of a natural language. This volume presents in-depth introductions to major aspects of language documentation, including overviews on fieldwork ethics and data processing, guidelines for the basic annotation of digitally-stored multimedia corpora and a discussion on how to build and maintain a language archive. It combines theoretical and practical considerations and makes specific suggestions for the most common problems encountered in language documentation.

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  • textbook
  • introduction to Language Documentation
  • considers all common problems

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Jost Gippert, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main, Germany; Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany; Ulrike Mosel, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Chapter 1 Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for?

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    Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
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    Chapter 2 Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis

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    Arienne M. Dwyer
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    Chapter 3 Fieldwork and community language work

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    Ulrike Mosel
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    Chapter 4 Data and language documentation

    87
    Peter K. Austin
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    Chapter 5 The ethnography of language and language documentation

    113
    Jane H. Hill
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    Chapter 6 Documenting lexical knowledge

    129
    John B. Haviland
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    Chapter 7 Prosody in language documentation

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    Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
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    Chapter 8 Ethnography in language documentation

    183
    Bruna Franchetto
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    Chapter 9 Linguistic annotation

    213
    Eva Schultze-Berndt
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    Chapter 10 The challenges of segmenting spoken language

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    Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
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    Chapter 11 Orthography development

    275
    Frank Seifart
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    Chapter 12 Sketch grammar

    301
    Ulrike Mosel
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    Chapter 13 Archiving challenges

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    Paul Trilsbeekj and Peter Wittenburg
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    Chapter 14 Linguistic documentation and the encoding of textual materials

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    Jost Gippert
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    Chapter 15 Thick interfaces:Mobilizing language documentation with multimedia

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    Backmatter

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eBook published on:
August 22, 2008
eBook ISBN:
9783110197730
Hardcover published on:
March 15, 2006
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110188646
Paperback published on:
March 15, 2006
Paperback ISBN:
9783110184068
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424
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197730
eBook ISBN: 9783110197730
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110188646
Paperback ISBN: 9783110184068
Keywords for this book
Language documentation; fieldwork
Audience(s) for this book
Linguists, Dialectologists, Anthropologists as well as Students and Researchers in various regional studies and philologies such as African Studies, Indology, Turkology, Semitic Studies, and South American Studies
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