Name: Field Linguistics By The late Terry Crowley (formerly Professor of Linguistics at the University of Waikato (New Zealand))
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Field Linguistics: A Beginner's Guide by The late Terry Crowley (formerly Professor of Linguistics at the University of Waikato (New Zealand))

Crowley's voice of experience brings us the best practical fieldwork guide to date. Sensible, frank, and comprehensive, this book prepares beginning field workers for the rigours ahead and will save years of costly trial and error. N. J. Enfield This book is a comprehensive, practical guide to field linguistics. It deals in particular with the problems arising from the documentation of endangered languages. Deploying a mixture of methodology and practical advice and drawing on his own immense experience, Terry Crowley shows how to record, analyse, and describe a language in the field. He covers the challenges and problems the researcher is likely to encounter, offers guidance on issues ranging from ethics to everyday diplomacy, and provides full discussions of corpus elicitation, how to keep track of data, salvage fieldwork, dealing with unexpected circumstances, and many other central topics. "We all learn by our mistakes," he writes, "and I have plenty of my own to share with you."

About The late Terry Crowley (formerly Professor of Linguistics at the University of Waikato (New Zealand))

Terry Crowley was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Waikato. He researched Oceanic languages for over a quarter of a century during which time he produced original accounts of seventeen of them including Bislama, Sye, Ura, Yaygir, Bandjalang, Uradhi, Mpakwithi, and Cape York Creole. His OUP books include Serial Verbs in Oceanic (2002) and An Introduction to Historical Linguistics (third edition, 1998). When Terry Crowley died in January 2005 he left behind a complete and almost final draft of the present book. This has been checked and prepared for publication by Professor Crowley's friend and colleague, Dr Nick Thieberger of the University of Melbourne.

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Field Linguistics: A Beginner's Guide by The late Terry Crowley (formerly Professor of Linguistics at the University of Waikato (New Zealand))

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The late Terry Crowley (formerly Professor of Linguistics at the University of Waikato (New Zealand))

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Oxford University Press

Year published

2007-01-18

Number of pages

218

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Field Linguistics The late Terry Crowley (formerly Professor of Linguistics at the University of Waikato (New Zealand))

Field Linguistics by The late Terry Crowley (formerly Professor of Linguistics at the University of Waikato (New Zealand))

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Field Linguistics: A Beginner's Guide by The late Terry Crowley (formerly Professor of Linguistics at the University of Waikato (New Zealand))

About The late Terry Crowley (formerly Professor of Linguistics at the University of Waikato (New Zealand))

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