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Methods in Contemporary Linguistics Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 247 Editor Volker Gast Founding Editor Werner Winter Editorial Board Walter Bisang Hans Henrich Hock Heiko Narrog Matthias Schlesewsky Niina Ning Zhang Editor responsible for this volume Walter Bisang De Gruyter Mouton Methods in Contemporary Linguistics edited by Andrea Ender Adrian Leemann Bernhard Wälchli De Gruyter Mouton ISBN 978-3-11-028466-9 e-ISBN 978-3-11-027568-1 ISSN 1861-4302 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData ACIPcatalogrecordforthisbookhasbeenappliedforattheLibraryofCongress. BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek TheDeutscheNationalbibliothekliststhispublicationintheDeutscheNationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableintheInternetathttp://dnb.dnb.de. ”2012WalterdeGruyterGmbH&Co.KG,Berlin/Boston Printing:Hubert&Co.GmbH&Co.KG,Göttingen (cid:2)(cid:2)Printedonacid-freepaper PrintedinGermany www.degruyter.com IN HONOUR OF IWAR WERLEN Contents Contents ................................................................................................. vii List of contributors ................................................................................ xi Introduction Andrea Ender, Adrian Leemann and Bernhard Wälchli ....................... 1 Part I: Core domains: From phonetics to pragmatics Methodological reflections on the phonetic–phonological continuum, illustrated on the prosody of Swiss German dialects Beat Siebenhaar and Adrian Leemann .................................................. 21 Phonological typology, rhythm types and the phonetics-phonology interface. A methodological overview and three case studies on Italo-Romance dialects Stephan Schmid ..................................................................................... 45 Indirect measurement in morphological typology Bernhard Wälchli .................................................................................. 69 Is a syntactic dialectology possible? Contributions from Swiss German Claudia Bucheli Berger, Elvira Glaser and Guido Seiler ..................... 93 Methods for modalities Johan van der Auwera and Gabriele Diewald ...................................... 121 The making of a festschrift, is it a ritual? Andrea Ender and Bernhard Wälchli .................................................... 143 Part II: Cross-linguistic and language internal diversity Language description and linguistic typology Fernando Zúñiga ................................................................................... 171 viii Contents Multiple languages and multiple methods: Qualitative and quantitative ways of tapping into the multilingual repertoire Raphael Berthele ................................................................................... 195 Koineization and cake baking: Reflections on methods in dialect contact research David Britain ......................................................................................... 219 Variation in a second language as a methodological challenge: Knowledge and use of relative clauses Andrea Ender ........................................................................................ 239 Polishtea is Czech coffee: advantages and pitfalls in using a parallel corpus in linguistic research Ruprecht von Waldenfels ....................................................................... 263 Part III: Dynamic language Historical text analysis: Underlying parameters and methodological procedures Beatrix Busse ......................................................................................... 285 Using methods of historical linguistics in Indo-European and Tibetan Roland Bielmeier ................................................................................... 309 Etyma, shouldered adzes and molecular variants George van Driem ................................................................................. 335 Experimental methods in psycholinguistics Constanze Vorwerg ............................................................................... 363 Part IV: Writing Coming to grips with dynamics and complexity. Methodological challenges to real-life writing research Daniel Perrin ........................................................................................ 389 (cid:3) Contents ix Evolving methods for written representations of signed languages of the Deaf Penny Boyes Braem ............................................................................... 411 Part V: Language, Space and Society Crossing perspectives on onomastic methodology: Reflections on fieldwork in place name research. An essay in interactional onomastics Elwys De Stefani ................................................................................... 441 Does the territoriality principle work in practice? The principle’s applicability to the Romansh area in the Swiss Canton of Grisons Matthias Grünert ................................................................................... 463 Procedures of methodological triangulation in sociolinguistic research on multilingualism Georges Lüdi, Katharina Höchle and Patchareerat Yanaprasart ........ 487 Subject index ......................................................................................... 515 Author index .......................................................................................... 527
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