[Lexicog] Re: Digest Number 458

[phil cash cash]

I agree with Rudy.  Thanks, the tips were very insightful and timely as 
I am about to start my own language documentation fieldwork with Nez 
Perce and Sahaptin.

Phil Cash Cash (cayuse/nez perce)
University of Arizona

On Nov 4, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Rudolph C Troike wrote:

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> Claire's and Bill's suggestions and caveats are excellent, and should 
> be
> in any handbook for fieldwork. I just wanted to add that the technique
> of generating forms by analogy and testing them with consultants has an
> honorable history, having been utilized by Stanley Newman in his work 
> on
> Yokuts. He was criticized later by behavioristically-influenced 
> structur-
> alists who insisted that only freely spontaneous text by native 
> speakers
> was legitimate fare for analysis and description. But utilized with
> appropriate caution, it can be a valuable technique.
>
> 	Rudy
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