Linguistic Fieldwork: A Student Guide
A practical guide to linguistic fieldwork by Jeanette Sakel and Daniel Everett, taking a student through every stage from planning the work to publishing it.
About the book
Linguistic Fieldwork was written by Jeanette Sakel and me, based on a larger, earlier manuscript of mine. It is a synopsis of how to conduct linguistics field research, and comes out of both Jeanette's extensive field research in South America and Europe, and my own in Brazil.
Praise
“… a perfect students’ guide through the intricate landscape of planning and conducting language research and documentation with the aid of native speakers.”
Thomas Stolz, Chair of Linguistics, University of Bremen
“Because of the contemporary emphasis on the description and documentation of endangered languages, the publication of this extremely useful guide to field research by Sakel and Everett, both experienced fieldworkers, is very timely.”
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., Heinrich Heine University and the State University of New York, Buffalo
About Daniel Everett
I came to linguistics serendipitously. Growing up in Holtville, California, near the Mexican border, I heard Spanish all around me, though I expected to become a musician rather than a scientist. On a school-band trip to Hollywood, I saw My Fair Lady and became fascinated by Henry Higgins. The film’s linguistic consultant, Peter Ladefoged, later became my friend and co-author.
A few years later, I moved to Brazil with SIL International, with which I am no longer affiliated, and earned my doctorate in linguistics at the University of Campinas. Beginning in 1977, I spent many years living and conducting field research among Indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon.
Linguist, anthropologist and author. Trustee Professor of Cognitive Sciences, Bentley University.