Methods in contemporary linguistics / edited by Andrea Ender, Adrian Leemann, Bernhard Wälchli.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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