Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Foreword
- 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
- Subject index
- Languages, language families, and ethnic groups index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 November 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Foreword
- 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
- Subject index
- Languages, language families, and ethnic groups index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Linguist on the LooseAdventures and Misadventures in Fieldwork, pp. vPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2021