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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461761903321

Titolo

Essentials of language documentation [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jost Gippert, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Ulrike Mosel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2006

ISBN

9786613428387

1-283-42838-5

3-11-019773-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (437 p.)

Collana

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; ; 178

Altri autori (Persone)

GippertJost

HimmelmannNikolaus <1959->

MoselUlrike

Disciplina

025.06/41

Soggetti

Linguistics - Documentation

Language and languages - Documentation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-416) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- 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 -- Back matter

Sommario/riassunto

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 language documentation, including overviews on fieldwork ethics and data processing, guidelines for the basic annotation of digitally-stored multimedia corpora and a discussion on how to build and maintain a language archive. It combines theoretical and practical considerations and makes specific suggestio