Linguist on the Loose: Adventures and Misadventures in Fieldwork

ISBN-13: 9781474494151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str.

University of Hawaii at Mano Lyle (Professor of Linguistics

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Foreword by Wade Davis; Preface; Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: What’s a linguist do, anyway?, What’s linguistic fieldwork? 2 Fieldwork adventure 3 Discoveries 4 Finding language consultants and working with them 5 Perils, parasites, politics, and violence 6 Eating, drinking, and matters of health 7 Surviving fieldwork: Travel and living in the Field 8 What next?: What is needed in endangered language research? References; Index