Describing Morphosyntax A Guide for Field Linguists
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Description
Current estimates are that around 3,000 of the 6,000 languages now spoken may become extinct during the next century. Some 4,000 of these existing languages have never been described, or described only inadequately. This book is a guide for linguistic fieldworkers who wish to write a description of the morphology and syntax of one of these many under-documented languages. It uses examples from many languages both well known and virtually unknown; it offers readers one possible outline for a grammatical…
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Key features
- Only up-to-date textbook showing students how to do fieldwork
- Fieldwork of increasing importance in linguistics given the number of languages dying out
- Payne a noted researcher in this area
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511805066
- Subjects Anthropology,Grammar and Syntax,Language and Linguistics,Linguistic Anthropology
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 28 October 1997
- ISBN: 9780521588058
- Dimensions (mm): 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.593kg
- Contains: 17 tables 67 exercises
- Page extent: 430 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 26 January 2019
- ISBN: 9780511805066
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