This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to linguistic fieldwork, reflecting its collaborative nature across the subfields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography. The handbook is an indispensible source, guide, and reference for everyone involved in linguistic and cultural fieldwork.

• Introduction


• Part I: Data Collection and Management


• 1: Anna Margetts and Andrew Margetts: Audio and Video Recording Techniques for Linguistic Research


• 2: Asifa Majid: A Guide to Stimulus-based Elicitation for Semantic Cetegories


• 3: Ulrike Mosel: Morphosyntactic Analysis in the Field, a Guide to the Guides


• 4: Nicholas Thieberger and Andrea L. Berez: Linguistic Data Management


• Part II: Recording Performance


• 5: Miriam Meyerhoff, Chie Adachi, Golnaz Nanbakhsh, and Anna Strycharz: Sociolinguistic Fieldwork


• 6: Mandana Seyfeddinipur: Reasons for Documenting Gestures and Suggestions for How to Go About It


• 7: Linda Barwick: Including Music and the Temporal Arts in Language Documentation


• Part III: Collaborating With Other Disciplines


• 8: Nicholas Evans: Anything Can Happen: the Verb Lexicon and Interdisciplinary Fieldwork


• 9: Laurent Dousset: Understanding Human Relations (kinship systems)


• 10: Nancy J. Pollock: The Language of Food


• 11: Barry Conn: Botanical Collecting


• 12: Will McClatchey: Ethnobiology - Basic Methods for Documenting Biological Knowledge Represented in Languages


• 13: Pierre Lemonnier: Technology


• 14: Marc Chemillier: Fieldwork in Ethnomathematics


• 15: Jarita Holbrook: Cultural Astronomy for Linguists


• 16: Andrew Turk, David Mark, Carolyn O'Meara, and David Stea: Geography - Documenting Terms for Landscape Features


• 17: David Nash and Jane Simpson: Toponymy: Recording and Analysing Placenames in a Language Area


• Part IV: Collaborating With the Community


• 18: Keren Rice: Ethical Issues in Linguistic Fieldwork


• 19: Paul Newman: Copyright and Other Legal Concerns


• 20: Monica Macaulay: Training Linguistics Students for the Realities of Fieldwork


• References


• Index of names


• Index of Topics

Nicholas Thieberger is a linguist whose grammar of South Efate broke new ground to include citable data linked to an archival version of the primary recordings. He is interested in developments in e-humanities methods and their potential to improve research practice, and is currently developing methods for creating reusable data sets from fieldwork on previously unrecorded languages. He is the project officer with the multi-institutional Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC.org.au), a databank that holds 3,000 hours of digitised audio files. He was an Assistant Professor in linguistics at the University of Hawai'i and is currently an Australian Research Council QEII Fellow at the University of Melbourne.