Essentials of Language Documentation / / ed. by Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Ulrike Mosel, Jost Gippert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Austin, Peter K.,; Dwyer, Arienne M.,; Franchetto, Bruna,; Gippert, Jost,; Haviland, John B.,; Hill, Jane H.,; Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.,; Mosel, Ulrike,; Nathan, David,; Schultze-Berndt, Eva,; Seifart, Frank,; Trilsbeekj, Paul,; Wittenburg, Peter,
• HerausgeberIn: Gippert, Jost,; Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.,; Mosel, Ulrike,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 178
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)

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 languag...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• 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
• Backmatter