Table of Contents

Editors' preface

Ch. 1: Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for? (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann)
Ch. 2: Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis (Arienne M. Dwyer)
Ch. 3: Fieldwork and community language work (Ulrike Mosel)
Ch. 4: Data and language documentation (Peter K. Austin)
Ch. 5: The ethnography of language and language documentation (Jane H. Hill)
Ch. 6: Documenting lexical knowledge (John B. Haviland)
Ch. 7: Prosody in language documentation (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann)
Ch. 8: Ethnography in language documentation (Bruna Franchetto)
Ch. 9: Linguistic annotation (Eva Schultze-Berndt)
Ch. 10: The challenges of segmenting spoken language (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann)
Ch. 11: Orthography development (Frank Seifart)
Ch. 12: Sketch grammar (Ulrike Mosel)
Ch. 13: Archiving challenges (Paul Trilsbeek, Peter Wittenburg)
Ch. 14: Linguistic documentation and the encoding of textual materials (Jost Gippert)
Ch. 15: Thick interfaces: mobilizing language documentation with multimedia (David Nathan)

Abbreviations and resources
References
Indexes:
Language Index
Subject Index

About the Author

Jost Gippert , Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt/Main, Germany; Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany;Ulrike Mosel, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel, Germany.