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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear Adam and others,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As many here would know, there are scattered general discussions and anecdotes about the benefits and challenges of language learning during linguistic fieldwork in a number of field methods guides (if memory serves,
for instance, Everett’s claims that this will add six months to one’s research…) and edited volumes on fieldwork (e.g. Newman & Ratliff 2001, Ameka, Dench & Evans 2006, and Sarvasy & Forker 2018). Speaking of which, if anyone needs access to Diana Forker and
my 2018 volume <i>Word Hunters: Field Linguists on Fieldwork</i>, which includes 10 ‘fieldwork autobiographies’ by preeminent field linguists, let me know. We’ve been trying to get Benjamins to choose it for Open Access status for years without success. (It
includes chapters by the late Robert Blust and G. Tucker Childs, among others.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My 2016 <i>CLS Proceedings </i>paper on the benefits of language learning/monolingual fieldwork, both in the field and in the Field Methods classroom, also has a number of references and anecdotes from fieldworkers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api/core/bitstreams/5b6c3bf2-c405-4b65-85a3-e9a0799a14aa/content">https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api/core/bitstreams/5b6c3bf2-c405-4b65-85a3-e9a0799a14aa/content</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Lev Michael’s 2008 thesis on ‘Nanti evidential practice’ notes that he used a monolingual method, and my own 2015 thesis, ‘A Grammar of Nungon,’ also stems from monolingual fieldwork.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You may also be interested in a 2020 overview of the history of monolingual fieldwork in the U.S. tradition:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thomas, Margaret. 2020. The monolingual approach in American linguistic fieldwork. <i>Historiographia Linguistica</i>, <i>47</i>(2-3), 266-302.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Last, here’s an old blog post about an insight gleaned from
<i>in situ </i>observation of language in use:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="https://brilllinguisticsblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/on-the-importance-of-in-situ-linguistic-observation/">https://brilllinguisticsblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/on-the-importance-of-in-situ-linguistic-observation/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hannah Sarvasy<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Senior Researcher<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Western Sydney University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/marcs/about/our_people/researchers/dr_hannah_sarvasy">https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/marcs/about/our_people/researchers/dr_hannah_sarvasy</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://dkb.research.pdx.edu/">https://dkb.research.pdx.edu/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Here’s an old blog post about the importance of
<i>in situ </i>observation for comprehensive language description:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="https://brilllinguisticsblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/on-the-importance-of-in-situ-linguistic-observation/">https://brilllinguisticsblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/on-the-importance-of-in-situ-linguistic-observation/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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