Linguistic Fieldwork offers practical guidance on areas such as applying for funding, the first
session on a new language, writing up the data and returning materials to communities. This …

We must not rely only on our 'scientific'definitions, such as mutual intelligibility and shared
literary norms, in deciding what should be recognised as a language. This is fundamentally …

This textbook introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of corpus linguistics for
students approaching this topic for the first time, putting specific emphasis on the enormous …

Over the past century, missionary educators, nation-state and academic planners, and
literacy development workers have used alphabets for political ends for traditionally …

Since time immemorial, Indigenous languages have thrived in their homelands. In the land
now called Canada, more than 500 years ago foreigners arrived from lands afar and brought …

An increasingly common strategy when naming new brands is to use an unconventional
spelling of an otherwise familiar word (eg,“Lyft” rather than “Lift”). However, little is known …

This chapter discusses a number of problems which are characteristic of lexicographic work
in short-term language documentation projects and addresses the following issues: the …

Abstract Language documentation, understood as the creation of corpora of annotated and
translated speech data in audio and video format, is a newly emerging field of empirical …

This article adds to the discussion on standardisation of minority languages spoken in
primarily oral cultures. Focusing on Amazonian Kichwa (Quechuan, lowland Ecuador), we …

Place names play a vital role in human society. Names exist in all languages and place
names are an indispensible part of international communication. This has been …