Reflections on Linguistic Fieldwork Within Moribund Speech Communities

• Published in: Études finno-ougriennes
• Main Author: Siegl, Florian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: INALCO 2019
• Subjects: language documentation; linguistic fieldwork; moribund languages; documentation linguistique; langues moribondes; terrain linguistique; keelte dokumenteerimine; keelelisi välitöid; väljasurevad keele; Ammarnäs; Arjeplog; Arvidsjaur; Dudinka; Potapovo; Tromsø; Tuva; Enets; Laponie; nenets; saami; samoyed*; Taimyr; Tundra; Yukaghir
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/efo/7615

Whereas linguists conducting fieldwork tend to be a minority among linguists, linguists conducting fieldwork among the last speakers of an underresearched/underdocumented or even undocumented language are a minority within a minority. Although a number of fieldwork manuals have been published in rec...