Language description and linguistic fieldwork



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LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION AND LINGUISTIC FIELDWORK

AU Summer University

Reading list for Week 1 of summer course

Basic background information that will be presumed in parts of the course – as per:

McGregor, William B. 2009. Linguistics: an introduction. London and New York: Continuum.

It will be assumed that you are familiar with all of the notions in this book, especially the fundamental grammatical notions outlined in Part I.

Week 1 – Shua grammar


Background knowledge on grammar writing


You should familiarise yourself with the following book, which outlines the fundamentals of morphological and syntactic description:

Payne, Thomas E. 1997. Describing morphosyntax: a guide for field linguists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Also useful readings for the topics of language description and documentation are:

Ameka, Felix K., Alan Dench & Nicholas Evans (eds) 2006. Catching language: the standing challenge of grammar writing. (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs, 167.) Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Gippert, Jost, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Ulrike Mosel (eds) 2006. Essentials of language documentation. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Payne, Thomas E. & David J. Weber (eds) 2007. Perspectives on grammar writing. (Benjamins Current Topics, 11.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.


Shua and other African languages


Starred references will be available in the readings package for the course.

Chebanne, Andrew. 2008. Person, gender and number markings in Eastern Kalahari Khoe: existence or traces? In Khoisan languages and linguistics: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium, January 8-12, 2006, Riezlern/Kleinwalsertal, edited by Sonja Ermisch, 49-65. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

Chebanne, Andy, and Moemedi Nthapelelang. 2000. The socio-linguistic survey of the Eastern Khoe in the Boteti and Makgadikgadi Pans areas of Botswana. In Botswana: the future of the minority languages, edited by Herman M. Batibo and Birgit Smieja, 79-94. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. (*)

Childs, George Tucker. 2003. An introduction to African languages. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Güldemann, Tom. 2004. Reconstruction through “de-construction”: the making of person, gender and number in the Khoe family and Kwadi. Diachronica 21:251-306. (*)

Güldemann, Tom. 2008. A linguist’s view: Khoe-Kwadi speakers as the earliest food-producers of southern Africa. Southern African Humanities 20:93-132.

Güldemann, Tom, and Mark Stoneking. 2008. A historical appraisal of clicks: a linguistic and genetic population perspective. Annual Review of Anthropology 37:93-109. (*)

Güldemann, Tom, and Rainer Vossen. 2000. Khoisan. In African languages: an introduction, edited by Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse, 99-122. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (*)

Hagman, Roy Stephen. 1973. Nama Hottentot grammar. PhD thesis, Columbia University, New York.

Heine, Bernd, and Derek Nurse. 2008. A linguistic geography of Africa. (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hieda, Osamu, Christa König, and Hiroshi Nakagawa. 2011. Geographical typology and linguistic areas: with special reference to Africa. (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Studies in Linguistics 2.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (Chapters by Vossen, Chebanne and Ono (*))

Kilian-Hatz, Christa. 2005. A grammar of Modern Khwe (Central Khoisan). (Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung/Research in Khoisan Studies, 23.) Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

König, Christa. 2008. Khoisan languages. Language and Linguistics Compass 2 (5):996-1012. (*)

Nakagawa, Hirosi. 2006. Aspects of the phonetic and phonological structure of the Gǀui language, PhD thesis, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Pickrell, Joseph K., Nick Patterson, Chiara Barbieri, Falko Berthold, Linda Gerlach, Tom Güldemann, Blesswell Kure, Sununguko Wata Mpoloka, Hirosi Nakagawa, Christfried Naumann, Mark Lipson, Po-Ru Loh, Joseph Lachance, Carlos D. Bustamante, Bonnie Berger, Sarah A. Tishkoff, Brenna M. Henn, Mark Stoneking, David Reich, and Brigitte Pakendorf. 2012. The genetic prehistory of southern Africa. Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/ncomms2140. (*)

Sands, Bonny. 2009. Africa’s linguistic diversity. Language and Linguistics Compass 3 (2):559-580. (*)

Vossen, Rainer. 2013. The Khoesan languages. (The Routledge Language Family Series.) London and New York: Routledge. (Chapters 2 and 3; pp. 71-73, 103-104, 215-228, 401-407 (*))

For further anthropological information see:

Barnard, Alan. 1992. Hunters and herders of southern Africa: a comparative ethnography of the Khoisan peoples. (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, 85.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION AND LINGUISTIC FIELDWORK

AU Summer University

Reading list & exercises for Week 2 – Fieldwork methods

Teacher: Eeva Sippola,
linesippola@hum.au.dk

This list provides you with the required pre course literature and exercises for week 2, and suggested readings on fieldwork methods. To get the most from the course you should start with reading Sakel & Everett 2012 and working on the exercises as soon as possible. Some more materials on the language we will be working with will be available in June.


Required readings


Sakel, Jeannette & Daniel L. Everett. 2012. Linguistic fieldwork. A student guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Leipzig Glossing Rules. Conventions for interlinear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses. http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/resources/glossing-rules.php

Tacchetti, Maddalena. 2012. User Guide for ELAN Linguistic Annotator version 4.1.0. The Language Archive, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.
http://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/

+ materials on the course language, to be announced in June.


Required pre-course assignment (deadline August 5)


 Prepare the following exercises at home before the start of the course:

Sakel, Jeannette & Daniel L. Everett. 2012. Linguistic fieldwork. A student guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.



  1. Exercise 2.1 on page 11. Hearing unknown language, trying to understand it.

  2. Exercise 3.4 on page 37. Types of language data and differences in data. You can use a recording device of your preference (computer, cell phone, mp3 recorder etc.) for exercise 3.4.

  3. Exercise 4.5 on page 56. Self-reflection.

Instructions:

  • Write a one-page commentary (300-500 words) to each exercise. You can summarize your thoughts, analyse data and comment on the exercise. There are no right or wrong answers to these exercises or questions.

  • Send your commentaries (in one file) to linesippola@hum.au.dk in doc/rtf/PDF by August 5. We will use them in group discussions and workshops during the course.

Assumed background knowledge for Week 2


Note: A basic knowledge of linguistic concepts and how to apply them on actual language data is assumed. It will be assumed that you are familiar with the notions in McGregor 2009 (especially the fundamental grammatical notions outlined in Part I) and Payne 1997.

McGregor, William B. 2009. Linguistics: an introduction. London and New York: Continuum.

Payne, Thomas E. 1997. Describing morphosyntax: a guide for field linguists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Supplementary readings


Starred references will be available in the readings package for the course. Many others can be found online.

Anderson, Victoria B. 2008. Static palatography for language fieldwork. Language Documentation & Conservation, 2 (1). 1–27. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1808

Boynton, Jessica, Steven Moran, Helen Aristar-Dry & Anthony Rodrigues Aristar. 2010. Using the E-MELD School of Best Practices to create lasting digital documentation. In Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee (eds.), Language Documentation: Practice and values. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 133–146. (*)

Crowley, Terry. 2007. Field Linguistics - a beginner’s guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2012. Linguistic Data Types and the Interface between Language Documentation and Description. Vol. 6, 187–207. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4503

Johnson, Heidi 2004. Language documentation and archiving, or how to build a better corpus. In Austin, Peter K. (ed.), Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 2. London: SOAS. 140–53.

Ladefoged, Peter. 1997/1999. Instrumental techniques for linguistic phonetic fieldwork. In Hardcastle, William J. & John Laver (eds.), The handbook of phonetic sciences. Oxford: Blackwell. 137–167. (*)

Majid, Asifa. 2012. A guide to stimulus-based elicitation for semantic categories. In Thieberger, Nick (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork,. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 54–71. (*)

Meyerhoff, Miriam, Chie Adachi, Golnaz Nanbakhsh & Anna Strycharz. 2012. Sociolinguistic fieldwork. In Thieberger, Nick (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 121–146. (*)

Mithun, Marianne. 2012. Field methods in syntactic research. In Luraghi, Silvia & Claudia Parodi (eds.), Continuum Companion to Syntax and Syntactic Theory. London & New York: Continuum. 32–50. http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/mithun/pdfs/%28In%20Press%29%20Field%20Methods%20in%20Syntactic%20Research.pdf.

Nathan, David and Peter K. Austin 2004. Reconceiving metadata: language documentation through thick and thin. In Austin, Peter K. (ed.) Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 2. 179–87.

Pawley, Andrew. 2011. Chapter 11. What does it take to make an ethnographic dictionary? On the treatment of fish and tree names in dictionaries of Oceanic languages. In Haig, Geoffrey, Nicole Nau, Stefan Schnell & Claudia Wegener (eds.), Documenting Endangered Languages. Achievements and Perspectives. De Gruyter. 263–288. (*)

Rice, Keren. 2006. Ethical issues in fieldwork: an overview. Journal of Academic Ethics 4, 123–155. (*)

Supplementary toolkits & materials


E-MELD School of Best Practice in Language Documentation
http://emeld.org/school/index.html

Typological tools for field linguistics. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Linguistics


http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/tools-at-lingboard/tools.php

L&C Field Manuals and Stimulus Materials. Language and Cognition Department, MaxPlanck Institute for Psycholinguistics


http://fieldmanuals.mpi.nl/


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