Methods in Contemporary Linguistics / Andrea Ender, Adrian Leemann, Bernhard Wälchli.

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

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