Metanavigation:
Bildmarke
  Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Linguistics

Typological tools for field linguistics

 

Questionnaires

Questionnaires can be an important tool in linguistic fieldwork for a variety of reasons. Some questionnaires are aimed at assisting a field worker who is relatively inexperienced in a particular area of linguistics in gathering the full range of data in that area. Other questionnaires focus on finding typologically interesting information about some aspect of the grammar of a language and may not be intended for the preparation of a general description of the language. We include questionnaires of both types. For many of the questionnaires below there are language descriptions whose authors have used the questionnaire in gathering the data for a language description or a typological work. In some cases the same website containing the questionnaire also contains such descriptions. These descriptions can be a useful guide to the use of the questionnaire.

 

General questionnaires
Syntax/Morpho-Syntax/Semantics
Adverbial Clauses
Adverbial quantification
Agreement
Anaphora
Aspect/Tense
Clitics
Complement Clauses
Conditional
Control
Converbs
Deixis
Ditransitive Constructions
Grammatical Domains
Exclamative constructions
Imperatives
Information Structure
Modality
Motion Events
Negation
Nominalization
Noun phrases
Valence
Verbs
Word Formation
Word order
Phonology
General Phonology
Phonological Domains
Stress
Lexographic
Languoid and/or Area Specific
Africa
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Miscellaneous
Phonological Domains
Stress
UNESCO Survey
Typology

 

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