Methods in Contemporary Linguistics / Andrea Ender, Adrian Leemann, Bernhard Wälchli. - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012] ©2012 - 1 online resource (549 p.) - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 247 .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Core domains: From phonetics to pragmatics -- Methodological reflections on the phonetic- phonological continuum, illustrated on the prosody of Swiss German dialects / Phonological typology, rhythm types and the phonetics-phonology interface. A methodological overview and three case studies on Italo- Romance dialects / Indirect measurement in morphological typology / Is a syntactic dialectology possible? Contributions from Swiss German / Methods for modalities / The making of a festschrift, is it a ritual? / Part II: Cross-linguistic and language-internal diversity -- Language description and linguistic typology / Multiple languages and multiple methods: Qualitative and quantitative ways of tapping into the multilingual repertoire / Koineization and cake baking: Reflections on methods in dialect contact research / Variation in a second language as a methodological challenge: Knowledge and use of relative clauses / Polish tea is Czech coffee: advantages and pitfalls in using a parallel corpus in linguistic research / Part III: Dynamic language -- Historical text analysis: Underlying parameters and methodological procedures / Using methods of historical linguistics in Indo-European and Tibetan / Etyma, shouldered adzes and molecular variants / Experimental methods in psycholinguistics / Part IV: Writing -- Coming to grips with dynamics and complexity. Methodological challenges to real-life writing research / Evolving methods for written representations of signed languages of the Deaf / Part V: Language, space and society -- Crossing perspectives on onomastic methodology: Reflections on fieldwork in place name research. An essay in interactional onomastics / Does the territoriality principle work in practice? The principle's applicability to the Romansh area in the Swiss Canton of Grisons / Procedures of methodological triangulation in sociolinguistic research on multilingualism / Subject index -- Author index Siebenhaar, Beat / Leemann, Adrian -- Schmid, Stephan -- Wälchli, Bernhard -- Bucheli Berger, Claudia / Glaser, Elvira / Seiler, Guido -- van der Auwera, Johan / Diewald, Gabriele -- Ender, Andrea / Wälchli, Bernhard -- Zúñiga, Fernando -- Berthele, Raphael -- Britain, David -- Ender, Andrea -- Waldenfels, Ruprecht von -- Busse, Beatrix -- Bielmeier, Roland -- Driem, George van -- Vorwerg, Constanze -- Perrin, Daniel -- Boyes Braem, Penny -- De Stefani, Elwys -- Grünert, Matthias -- Lüdi, Georges / Höchle, Katharina / Yanaprasart, Patchareerat --

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