In:Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork
Edited by Hannah Sarvasy and Diana Forker
[Studies in Language Companion Series 194] 2018
► pp. v–vi
Get fulltext
This article is available free of charge.
Published online: 22 February 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.194.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.194.toc
Table of contents
Chapter 1.Word hunters: Unsung heroes of linguistics
1
Hannah Sarvasy
Diana Forker
Chapter 2.The magic of names: A fieldworker’s perspective
9
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Chapter 3.Historical linguistics in the raw: My life as a diachronic fieldworker
29
Robert Blust
Chapter 4.Sharing thoughts, concepts and experiences: Fieldwork on African languages
45
Matthias Brenzinger
Chapter 5.Forty-plus years before the mast: My experiences as a field linguist
61
G. Tucker Childs
Chapter 6.Field linguistics in Daghestan: A very personal account
79
Nina Dobrushina
Michael Daniel
Chapter 7.Drinking of the iceberg: Thirty years of fieldwork on Arctic languages
95
Michael Fortescue
Chapter 8.Reflections on linguistic fieldwork between Sahel, Amazon and Outback
107
Knut Olawsky
Chapter 9.My fieldwork, from Georgia to Guinea
123
Nina Sumbatova
Chapter 10.The linguist as a demon and as a human: Fieldwork in Greater Awyu communities of West Papua
139
Lourens de Vries
Chapter 11.From here to there and back again: Fieldwork in the Andean foothills
157
Mary Ruth Wise
Subject index
171
Language index
175
Name index
177
