"Essentials of Language Documentation"

Jost Gippert, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Ulrike Mosel (eds.)

Mouton - de Gruyter, 2006

Additional materials

This is the official webpage of the handbook "Essentials of Language Documentation" edited by Jost Gippert, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and Ulrike Mosel and published in its first (English) edition by Mouton - de Gruyter, 2006. It comprises additional materials (audiovisual recordings, images, links etc.) pertaining to the book. The webpage will be updated regularly.

Materials pertaining to individual chapters

• Ch. 1: Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for? (N. Himmelmann)
• Ch. 2: Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis (A. Dwyer)
• Resources on ethics and rights
• Ch. 3: Fieldwork and community language work (U. Mosel)
• Ch. 4: Data and language documentation (P. Austin)
• Ch. 5: Ethnography of language and language documentation (J. Hill)
• Ch. 6: Documenting lexical knowledge (J. Haviland)
• Figure 1
• Figure 2
• Figure 3
• Figure 6
• Videos showing extracting and inserting actions.
• Ch. 7: Prosody in language documentation (N. Himmelmann)
• Audio file pertaining to fig. 2 (kaluha)
• Audio file pertaining to fig. 3 (kii-baa-ini)
• Audio file pertaining to fig. 4 (ne-ehe-aboo)
• Audio file pertaining to fig. 5 (aboo-adku-de-nau)
• Ch. 8: Ethnography in language documentation (B. Franchetto)
• Audio file Kalusi: WMA format / WAV format
• Video file a: Kuikuro: WMV format / MP4 format
• Video file b: Kalapalo: WMV format / MP4 format
• Video file c: Chief's speech: WMV format / MP4 format
• Video file d: WMV format / MP4 format
• Video file e: WMV format / MP4 format
• Video file f: Hugagü: WMV format / MP4 format
• Map 1
• Map 2
• Carlos-Fausto's photograph
• Ch. 9: Linguistic annotation (E. Schultze-Berndt)
• Ch. 10: The challenges of segmenting spoken language (N. Himmelmann)
• Audio file pertaining to fig. 1 (Pear story, 36 ff.)
• Audio file pertaining to fig. 2 (Pear story, 48 ff.)
• Audio file pertaining to fig. 3 (Pear story, 88 ff.)
• Ch. 11: Orthography development (F. Seifart)
• Ch. 12: Sketch grammar (U. Mosel)
• Ch. 13: Archiving challenges (P. Trilsbeek, P. Wittenburg)
• Ch. 14: Linguistic documentation and the encoding of textual materials (J. Gippert)
• Figure 1
• Table 17
• Figure 2
• Figure 3
• Ch. 15: Thick interfaces: mobilizing language documentation with multumedia (D. Nathan)
• Figure 1
• Figure 3
• Figure 4
• Figure 5
• Figure 6

General materials

• Abbreviations, acronyms and technical terms in alphabetical order
• Web resources (links)

13.03.2006