Linguistic Field Methods

Linguistic Field Methods approaches the elicitation of linguistic data from native speaker informants in a novel and engaging manner. The authors follow introductory chapters surveying the general enterprise of field research with chapters exploring methods of eliciting data in eight major areas of current linguistic interest: phonetics phonology morphology syntax semantics pragmatics sociolinguistics and dialectology and historical linguistics. Bert Vaux teaches phonology and morphology at the University of Cambridge. Though much of his fieldwork focuses on endangered dialects of Armenian he has also conducted field research on Abkhaz Aramaic Calypso Cape Verdean Creole many dialects of English Ghanaian Pidgin English Gujarati Krio Lak Singlish Tigrinya Tok Pisin Turkish Uyghur Yakut and Zaza. Justin Cooper studied linguistics at Dartmouth and Harvard. He is presently a lawyer at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Emily Tucker studied linguistics at Harvard and UCLA and is currently a graduate student in computer science at the Oregon Graduate Center.