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In:Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork
Edited by Hannah Sarvasy and Diana Forker
[Studies in Language Companion Series 194] 2018
► pp. 157–169

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Chapter 11
From here to there and back again

Fieldwork in the Andean foothills

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Published online: 22 February 2018
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Article outline
  • 1.An overview
  • 2.How did I get into this?
  • 3.Yánesha’ fieldwork (1953–1964)
    • Drowning and going down river
    • You and I
    • Should it be -a, -e, or -o?
    • “If we forget to say one, we say the other”
    • Were you ever afraid?
    • Secrets of language learning
    • When cousins turn their backs to each other
    • How do you write -rra?
  • 4.Nomatsigenga fieldwork
    • Aha!
    • Literary criticism or discourse grammar?
  • 5.Comparing notes
  • 6.Language contact
  • 7.Recycled
    • Would I do it again?
  • Notes
  • References
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