Polish tea is Czech coffee: advantages and pitfalls in using a parallel corpus in linguistic research

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of contributors xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Core domains: From phonetics to pragmatics
6. Methodological reflections on the phonetic– phonological continuum, illustrated on the prosody of Swiss German dialects 21
7. Phonological typology, rhythm types and the phonetics-phonology interface. A methodological overview and three case studies on Italo- Romance dialects 45
8. Indirect measurement in morphological typology 69
9. Is a syntactic dialectology possible? Contributions from Swiss German 93
10. Methods for modalities 121
11. The making of a festschrift, is it a ritual? 143
12. Part II: Cross-linguistic and language-internal diversity
13. Language description and linguistic typology 171
14. Multiple languages and multiple methods: Qualitative and quantitative ways of tapping into the multilingual repertoire 195
15. Koineization and cake baking: Reflections on methods in dialect contact research 219
16. Variation in a second language as a methodological challenge: Knowledge and use of relative clauses 239
17. Polish tea is Czech coffee: advantages and pitfalls in using a parallel corpus in linguistic research 263
18. Part III: Dynamic language
19. Historical text analysis: Underlying parameters and methodological procedures 285
20. Using methods of historical linguistics in Indo-European and Tibetan 309
21. Etyma, shouldered adzes and molecular variants 335
22. Experimental methods in psycholinguistics 363
23. Part IV: Writing
24. Coming to grips with dynamics and complexity. Methodological challenges to real-life writing research 389
25. Evolving methods for written representations of signed languages of the Deaf 411
26. Part V: Language, space and society
27. Crossing perspectives on onomastic methodology: Reflections on fieldwork in place name research. An essay in interactional onomastics 441
28. Does the territoriality principle work in practice? The principle’s applicability to the Romansh area in the Swiss Canton of Grisons 463
29. Procedures of methodological triangulation in sociolinguistic research on multilingualism 487
30. Subject index 515
31. Author index 527