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Essentials of Language Documentation (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 178)
Essentials of Language Documentation - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 178 Author:et al. 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 fieldwo... more »rk 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 suggestions for the most common problems encountered in language documentation. Key features: - introduction to Language Documentation - considers all common problems« less