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Essentials of language documentation / edited by Jost Gippert, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Ulrike Mosel.
DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014 Available online
DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 178
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linguistics--Documentation.
- Linguistics.
- Language and languages--Documentation.
- Language and languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (437 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-416) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613428387
- 9781283428385
- 1283428385
- 9783110197730
- 3110197731
- OCLC:
- 191818386
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