This textbook introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of corpus linguistics for
students approaching this topic for the first time, putting specific emphasis on the enormous …

Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork offers a diverse and practical introduction to research
methods used in field linguistics. Designed to teach students how to collect quality linguistic …

The transcription bottleneck is often cited as a major obstacle for efforts to document the
world's endangered languages and supply them with language technologies. One solution …

Karbi phonology Page 1 A GRAMMAR OF KARBI by LINDA ANNA KONNERTH A
DISSERTATION Presented to the Department of Linguistics and the Graduate School of the …

Documentary linguists aspiring to conduct socially responsible research find themselves
immersed in a literature on 'collaborative methods' that does not address some of the most …

In the last decade of the 20th century a new field of language research emerged that has
come to be known as 'language documentation'or 'documentary linguistics'(Himmelmann …

This chapter discusses various methods of notating sign forms, focusing on the manual
aspect of signing, for which the largest number of different systems has been proposed. It …

Western Austronesian languages are typically defined in contrast to Oceanic languages as
possessing a system of 'symmetrical'voice alternations (Himmelmann 2005a). These are …

Abstract The thesis entitled" The Semantics and Grammar of Gurenϵ Positional Verbs: A
Typological Perspective" handed in by Samuel Awinkene Atintono at the University of …

There are two exciting facets of language description: the fieldwork experience, which is
necessary for data collection, and the process of discovery and analysis that leads to the …