Essentials of language documentation
- Publication/Creation:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2006
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Essentials of language documentation edited by Jost Gippert, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Ulrike Mosel
- Series Titles:
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 178
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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- Front matter --
Contents --
Chapter 1 Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for? --
Chapter 2 Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis --
Chapter 3 Fieldwork and community language work --
Chapter 4 Data and language documentation --
Chapter 5 The ethnography of language and language documentation --
Chapter 6 Documenting lexical knowledge --
Chapter 7 Prosody in language documentation --
Chapter 8 Ethnography in language documentation --
Chapter 9 Linguistic annotation --
Chapter 10 The challenges of segmenting spoken language --
Chapter 11 Orthography development --
Chapter 12 Sketch grammar --
Chapter 13 Archiving challenges --
Chapter 14 Linguistic documentation and the encoding of textual materials --
Chapter 15 Thick interfaces: Mobilizing language documentation with multimedia --
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- Gippert, Jost
Himmelmann, Nikolaus, 1959-
Mosel, Ulrike
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- Table of Contents:
- Front matter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for? -- Chapter 2 Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis -- Chapter 3 Fieldwork and community language work -- Chapter 4 Data and language documentation -- Chapter 5 The ethnography of language and language documentation -- Chapter 6 Documenting lexical knowledge -- Chapter 7 Prosody in language documentation -- Chapter 8 Ethnography in language documentation -- Chapter 9 Linguistic annotation -- Chapter 10 The challenges of segmenting spoken language -- Chapter 11 Orthography development -- Chapter 12 Sketch grammar -- Chapter 13 Archiving challenges -- Chapter 14 Linguistic documentation and the encoding of textual materials -- Chapter 15 Thick interfaces: Mobilizing language documentation with multimedia -- Back matter
- Summary:
- 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 suggestio
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (437 p.)
- General Note:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Additional Physical Form:
- Issued also in print.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936528507002486
- ISBN:
- 9786613428387
1-283-42838-5
3-11-019773-1 - OCLC Number:
- 948655721
191818386
853259258 - Other Identifiers:
- doi: 10.1515/9783110197730
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