Essentials of language documentation

Essentials of language documentation

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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 …

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Essentials of language documentation / edited by Jost Gippert, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Ulrike Mosel.

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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2006.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Mouton de Gruyter
  • Place of Publication:Berlin
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2006.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:3110197731, 9783110197730
  • oclc:on1060938164
  • LC Classification:P128.D63
  • Dewey Decimal:025.06/41

Table of Contents

Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for? / Nikolaus P. Himmelmann -- Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis / Arienne M. Dwyer -- Fieldwork and community language work / Ulrike Mosel -- Data and language documentation / Peter K. Austin -- The ethnography of language and language documentation / Jane H. Hill -- Documenting lexical knowledge / John B. Haviland -- Prosody in language documentation / Nikolaus P. Himmelmann -- Ethnography in language documentation / Bruna Franchetto -- Linguistic annotation / Eva Schultze-Berndt -- The challenges of segmenting spoken language / Nikolaus P. Himmelmann -- Orthography development / Frank Seifart -- Sketch grammar / Ulrike Mosel -- Archiving challenges / Paul Trilsbeek and Peter Wittenburg -- Linguistic documentation and the encoding of textual materials / Jost Gippert -- Thick interfaces: mobilizing language documentation with multimedia / David Nathan.

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Subjects

Langage et langues -- Documentation Language and languages -- Documentation Linguistics -- Documentation Linguistique -- Documentation

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