Linguistic Field Methods

by Bert Vaux, Justin Cooper (Contributor), Emily Tucker (Contributor)

Linguistic Field Methods approaches the elicitation of linguistic data from native speaker informants in a novel and engaging manner. The authors follow introductory chapters surveying the general enterprise of field research with chapters exploring methods of eliciting data in eight major areas of current linguistic phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and dialectology, and historical linguistics.

Genres: Linguistics

420 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 2007