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Studying and Describing Unwritten Languages - Bouquiaux, Luc, and Thomas, Jacqueline M C, and Roberts, James, PH.D. (Translated by)
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This work was the authors' response to a need they saw for methodology in field research. They give techniques for gathering and processing data from unwritten languages, and include questionnaires for many aspects of both language and culture. Examples of the latter are time, currency, measures, and kinship. This is an English translation of a work that was first published in French in three volumes (Bouquiaux, L. & Thomas, Jacqueline M.C. (eds.), Enqu???te et description des langues ??? tradition orale. I L'enqu???te de ...

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Studying and Describing Unwritten Languages 1992, Sil International, Global Publishing

ISBN-13: 9780883128145

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