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Documenting Endangered Languages : Achievements and Perspectives /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haig, Geoffrey
Otros Autores: Nau, Nicole, Schnell, Stefan, Wegener, Claudia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 240.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface. Ulrike Mosel's contribution to documentary linguistics; Chapter 1. Introduction; Part I. Theoretical issues in language documentation; Chapter 2. Competing motivations for documenting endangered languages; Chapter 3. Evolving challenges in archiving and data infrastructures; Chapter 4. Comparing corpora from endangered language projects: Explorations in language typology based on original texts; Part II. Documenting language structure; Chapter 5. "Words" in Kharia
  • Phonological, morpho-syntactic, and "orthographical" aspects.
  • Chapter 6. Aspect in Forest Enets and other Siberian Indigenous languages
  • when grammaticography and lexicography meet different metalanguagesChapter 7. Documentary linguistics and prosodic evidence for the syntax of spoken language; Chapter 8. Diphthongology meets language documentation: The Finnish experience; Chapter 9. Retelling data: Working on transcription; Part III. Documenting the lexicon; Chapter 10. The making of a multimedia encyclopaedic lexicon for and in endangered speech communities.
  • Chapter 11. What does it take to make an ethnographic dictionary? On the treatment of fish and tree names in dictionaries of Oceanic languages Part IV. Interaction with speech communities; Chapter 12. Language is power: The impact of fieldwork on community politics; Chapter 13. Sustaining Vurës: Making products of language documentation accessible to multiple audiences; Chapter 14. Filming with native speaker commentary; Index.