STUDYING AND DESCRIBING UNWRITTEN LANGUAGES

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 MC eds Enquete et description des langues a tradition orale I Lenquete de terrain et lanalyse grammaticale IIApproche linguistique Questionnaires grammaticaux et phrases III Approche thematique Questionnaire technique et Guides thematiques Paris SELAF 2nd ed 1976