[Lingtyp] LD&C Special Publication No. 16 -- Methodological Tools for Linguistic Description and Typology

[MARINE vuillermet]

Dear all,

 

Aimée Lahaussois (HTL, CNRS) and I (Marine Vuillermet,DDL, CNRS) are very pleased to announce the publication of Special Issue 16in Language Documentation & Conservation on methodologicaltools for linguistic description and typology. It is available online at thefollowing link: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/sp16/

 

At the bottom of this e-mail, you will find the Tableof Contents (also here) and the presentation of the volume(also slightly more detailed here).

 

Best regards,

 

Aimée Lahaussois & Marine Vuillermet

 

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Tableof Contents


1.Introduction: Methodological tools for linguistic description and typology

AiméeLahaussois & Marine Vuillermet

 

2.Linguistic diversity, language documentation and psycholinguistics: The role ofstimuli

BirgitHellwig

 

3.The TULQuest  linguistic questionnairearchive

AiméeLahaussois

 

4.Automatic construction  of lexicaltypological Questionnaires

Denis Paperno & Daria Ryzhova

 

5.Using questionnaires as a tool  forcomparative linguistic field research:  Two case studies onJavanese

JozinaVander Klok & Thomas J. Conners

 

6. Trajectoire: A methodologicaltool  for eliciting Path of motion

MarineVuillermet & Anetta Kopecka

 

7.Video elicitation of negative directives in Alaskan Dene languages: Reflections on methodology

OlgaLovick & Siri G. Tuttle

 

8. Aproposal for conversational questionnaires



AlexandreFrançois



Presentation of the volume

Methodologicaltools for linguistic description and typology is an outcome of a collaborativemulti-year research project on Questionnaires for linguistic description andtypology. For the purposes of the project, we use Questionnaire (with a capitalQ) as a general term to cover any kind of methodological tool designed toelicit linguistic expressions, including word lists, visual stimuli,descriptive templates, field manuals, and the like. This volume thus bringstogether articles about written questionnaires and visual stimuli, which due totheir epistemological differences are rarely considered together, and treatsthem as sub-types of the large category of methodological tools that helplinguists carry out descriptive and comparative work. 

The volume intends, through its 7 contributions, to remind fellowlinguists of the wide range of existing Questionnaires, ensuring that thecolossal individual or collective enterprise of creating these tools isacknowledged and can benefit other researchers. Even in cases where a specificQuestionnaire is not adapted to the investigation at hand with regard to thedomain it was designed to study, some part of it (the protocol, the medium, thevisual style) may still inspire others, and be adapted to new and differentneeds. Each contribution herein suggests valuable guidelines in the creation ofnew Questionnaires, discussing their approaches at various levels (design,test, readjustment/development, diffusion, etc). Particularly relevant tofieldworkers, this concentration of best practices may help avoid some of thefaux-pas that investigators have faced with particularly vulnerable peoples orcommunities 



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