Linguistic fieldwork as team science

Defina, Rebecca; Dingemanse, Mark; Van Putten, Saskia

doi:10.1075/slcs.235.01def

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Defina, R., Dingemanse, M., & Van Putten, S. (2024). Linguistic fieldwork as team science. In E. Aboh (Ed.), Predication in African Languages (pp. 20-42). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi:10.1075/slcs.235.01def.

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Linguistic fieldwork is increasingly moving forward from the traditional model of lone fieldworker with a notebook to collaborative projects with key roles for native speakers and other experts and involving the use of different kinds of stimulus-based elicitation methods as well as extensive video documentation. Several cohorts of colleagues and students have been influenced by this inclusive and interdisciplinary view of linguistic fieldwork. We describe the challenges and benefits of doing multi-methods collaborative fieldwork. As linguistics inevitably moves into the direction of multiple methods, interdisciplinarity and team science, now is the time to reflect critically on how best to contribute to a cumulative science of language.