Title Linguistic fieldwork / edited by Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff

Published Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Description xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Introduction / Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff -- 1. Fieldwork as a state of mind / Larry M. Hyman -- 2. Who shapes the record: the speaker and the linguist / Marianne Mithun -- 3. Places and people: field sites and informants / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- 4. Ulwa (Southern Sumu): the beginning for a language research project / Ken Hale -- 5. Escaping Eurocentrism: fieldwork as a process of unlearning / David Gil -- 6. Surprises in Sutherland: linguistic variability amidst social uniformity / Nancy C. Dorian -- 7. The role of text collection and elicitation in linguistic fieldwork / Shobhana L. Chelliah -- 8. Minolingual field research / Daniel L. Everett -- 9. The give and take of fieldwork: noun classes and other concerns in Fatick, Senegal / Fiona McLaughlin and Thierno Seydou Sall -- 10. Phonetic fieldwork / Ian Maddieson -- 11. Learning as one goes / Keren Rice -- 12. The last speaker is died - long live the last speaker! / Nicholas Evans Notes First published in Singapore in 2001 by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Chinese reunification question, 1949- Linguistics -- Fieldwork. SUBJECT China -- Foreign relations -- Taiwan. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114684 China -- Foreign relations -- United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100081 China -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024153 -- 1976- China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024175 Taiwan -- Foreign relations -- China. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117223 Taiwan -- Foreign relations -- United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117224 Taiwan -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131997 -- 1988- United States -- Foreign relations -- China. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100024 United States -- Foreign relations -- Taiwan. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100140 Author Newman, Paul, 1937- Ratliff, Martha Susan, 1946- LC no. 00063073 ISBN 0521660491 0521669375 (paperback) 1860647316 (hardback) 1860647324 (paperback)

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