Linguistics Fieldwork/Language Documentation
Sites
The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
http://www.hrelp.org/documentation/whatisit/
Covers documentation methods, recording equipment, archiving,
intellectual property protocol.
Jim Fox's Anthropology/Linguistics Fieldwork Checklist
http://www.stanford.edu/~popolvuh/field-checklist.htm
This is the most comprehensive website we've seen so far on tips on
what to pack when planning any kind of Linguistic Anthropological
Fieldwork. Stanford Professor Jim Fox has covered every potential and
necessary packing item you could think of! You
won't need everything he lists, but his checklist is sure to keep you from
forgetting something possibly crucial to your fieldwork.
Max Planck Institute
http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/files/software_tools.html#datacollection
This has it all... Questionnaires, stimulus kits for data elicitation,
grammar writing guides, glossing and formatting, ethical issues,
interlinear glossing tools, elicitation stimuli, equipment recommendations
Linguistic Data Consortium
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/
Describes resources for language documentation and linguistic
exploration
Nadine Borchardt's (Uni Bielefeld) language
documentation/endangered languages references page
http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/nborchardt/nb_referenz_ling.01.html
References for language Documentation, Endangered Languages, Field
Linguistics and Typology
UC Berkeley Linguistics Fieldwork Page
http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/field/
SIL's Linguistic Fieldwork Page
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/fieldwork.html
SIL's Linguistic Resource Page
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/resources.html
The American Folklife Center
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/fieldwork/
Endangered Language Documentation
Sites
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/linguistics/stlapolla_data/PublicationItems/Papers/el.html
Links to a surfeit of resources on language endangerment and language
maintenance.
A paper on endangered language documentation by Christian Lehmann
http://www.tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/BibLE/
A bibliography on language endangerment (compiled by Tasaku Tsunoda)
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/gordon/icphs_gordon.pdf
A paper on collecting phonetic data on endangered languages by Matthew
Gordon
Resource Network for linguistic diversity
http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/RNLD/RNLDfaq.html
The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
http://www.hrelp.org/documentation/whatisit/
UNESCO Register of Good Practices in Language Preservation
http://www.unesco.org/culture/endangeredlanguages/goodpractices
Recommended Books
Austin, Peter (ed.). 2004. Language Documentation and Description, Vol 1,
papers
from the first conference sponsored by the Hans Rausing Endangered
Languages Project. London: School of Oriental and African Studies.
Booth, Wayne C., Joseph M. Williams, and Gregory G. Colomb. 2003. The
Craft of Research. 2nd Ed. Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and
Publishing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Kulick, Don. 1992. Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction:
Socialization, Self, and
Syncretism in a Papua New Guinea Village. New York: Cambridge University.
Press.
Newman, Paul and Ratliff, Martha. 2001. Linguistic Fieldwork.
Cambridge: CUP.
Payne, T. E. 1997. Describing Morphosyntax. A Guide for Field Linguists.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Vaux, Bert & Justin Cooper. (1999). Introduction into Linguistic Field
methods. München, Newcastle: Lincom
Europa.
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