Field Linguistics: A Beginner's Guide

by Terry Crowley

Book Overview

Crowley's voice of experience brings us the best practical fieldwork guide to date. Sensible, frank, and comprehensive, this book prepares beginning field workers for the rigours ahead and will save years of costly trial and error. N. J. Enfield

This book is a comprehensive, practical guide to field linguistics. It deals in particular with the problems arising from the documentation of endangered languages. Deploying a mixture of methodology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199213704
• ISBN13: 9780199213702
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 9.5"