Essentials of Language Documentation (Paperback)

Editors' preface Ch. 1: Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for? (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann) Ch. 2: Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis (Arienne M. Dwyer) Ch. 3: Fieldwork and community language work (Ulrike Mosel) Ch. 4: Data and language documentation (Peter K. Austin) Ch. 5: The ethnography of language and language documentation (Jane H. Hill) Ch. 6: Documenting lexical knowledge (John B. Haviland) Ch. 7: Prosody in language documentation (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann) Ch. 8: Ethnography in language documentation (Bruna Franchetto) Ch. 9: Linguistic annotation (Eva Schultze-Berndt) Ch. 10: The challenges of segmenting spoken language (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann) Ch. 11: Orthography development (Frank Seifart) Ch. 12: Sketch grammar (Ulrike Mosel) Ch. 13: Archiving challenges (Paul Trilsbeek, Peter Wittenburg) Ch. 14: Linguistic documentation and the encoding of textual materials (Jost Gippert) Ch. 15: Thick interfaces: mobilizing language documentation with multimedia (David Nathan) Abbreviations and resources References Indexes: Language Index Subject Index