UID:
edocfu_9958353937202883
Format:
1 online resource (353p.)
ISBN:
9783110260021
Series Statement:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 240
Content:
Documenting endangered languages has become a major goal in the linguistic sciences. This volume showcases recent developments in methodology, technology and analysis, drawing on experience gained in a global range of documentation projects. It illustrates the significance of documentary linguistics not only as a set of documentary practices, but as a scientific discipline in its own right.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface. Ulrike Mosel’s contribution to documentary linguistics --
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Documenting endangered languages before, during, and after the DoBeS programme --
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Part I. Theoretical issues in language documentation --
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Chapter 2. Competing motivations for documenting endangered languages --
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Chapter 3. Evolving challenges in archiving and data infrastructures --
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Chapter 4. Comparing corpora from endangered language projects: Explorations in language typology based on original texts --
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Part II. Documenting language structure --
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Chapter 5. “Words” in Kharia – Phonological, morpho-syntactic and “orthographical” aspects --
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Chapter 6. Aspect in Forest Enets and other Siberian indigenous languages – when grammaticography and lexicography meet different metalanguages --
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Chapter 7. Documentary linguistics and prosodic evidence for the syntax of spoken language --
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Chapter 8. Diphthongology meets language documentation: The Finnish experience --
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Chapter 9. Retelling data: Working on transcription --
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Part III. Documenting the lexicon --
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Chapter 10. The making of a multimedia encyclopaedic lexicon for and in endangered speech communities --
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Chapter 11. What does it take to make an ethnographic dictionary? On the treatment of fish and tree names in dictionaries of Oceanic languages --
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Part IV. Interaction with speech communities --
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Chapter 12. Language is power: The impact of fieldwork on community politics --
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Chapter 13. Sustaining Vurës: Making products of language documentation accessible to multiple audiences --
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Chapter 14. Filming with native speaker commentary --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-026001-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110260021
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110260021
