Recently published books of interest to TB scholars

[Randy LaPolla]

Chelliah, Shobhana L. & Willem J. de Reuse. 2011. Handbook of descriptive linguistic fieldwork. Dordrecht: Springer.

[Broad scope and coverage from four points of view: the geographical, the historical, the philosophical and the encyclopedic.
Includes detailed discussions of the theoretical, practical and ethical issues involved in language selection, data collection, data management.
A survey of past and present approaches and solutions to problems in the field, and the historical, political, and social variables correlating with fieldwork in different areas of the world.
This handbook provides the most comprehensive reference on linguistic fieldwork on the market bringing together all the reader needs to carry out successful linguistic fieldwork. The book is based on the experiences of two veteran linguistic fieldworkers and advice from more than twenty active fieldwork researchers. They provide an encyclopedic review of current publications on linguistic fieldwork and offer a unique survey of past and present approaches and solutions to problems in the field. They also examine the historical, political, and social variables correlating with fieldwork in different areas of the world. The book includes information omitted in most other texts on the subject, such as the collection, representation, management, and methods of extracting grammatical information from discourse and conversational data. Extensive practical fieldwork tips are provided, as well as a handy sketch of major typological features for use in linguistic analysis.  [Publishers]]

Sun, Hongkai & Guangkun Liu. 2009. Languages of the Greater Himalayan region, volume 9: A grammar of Anong: Language death under intense contact. (Translated, annotated, and supplemented by Fengxiang Li, Ela Thurgood & Graham Thurgood.) Leiden: Brill.

[A work that will be of interest to those interested in typology, language history, and contact induced change, this book documents the radical restructuring of Anong over the last 40 years under intense contact with Lisu. In the almost fifty years, Sun Hongkai has been documenting the Anong language of Yunnan China, it has undergone radical, contact-induced changes. The language of the less than forty remaining speakers is quite different than the Anong of forty years ago. Under intense contact with Lisu, major change has occurred in the language, much of it documented in this work of Sun's. The English edition is a reworking of the original Chinese version, providing annotation, an expanded lexicon, and an appendix that contains an instrumental study of the language.  [Publishers]]

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