Linguist on the Loose : : Adventures and Misadventures in Fieldwork / / Lyle Campbell.
A vivid memoir of life in the field that highlights the importance of documenting indigenous languagesLyle Campbell’s linguistic fieldwork has taken him to numerous countries, sometimes in challenging circumstances. It has led to exciting discoveries including a new language in southeastern Guatemal...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 50 B/W illustrations 50 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: What’s a linguist do, anyway?, What’s linguistic fieldwork?
- 2. Fieldwork adventure
- 3. Discoveries
- 4. Finding language consultants and working with them
- 5. Perils, parasites, politics, and violence
- 6. Eating, drinking, and matters of health
- 7. Surviving fieldwork: Travel and living in the field
- 8. What next?: What is needed in endangered language research?
- References
- Subject index
- Languages, language families, and ethnic groups index