Sentence examples for fieldworkers from inspiring English sources

Between 1931 and 1933, fieldworkers under the direction of the linguist Hans Kurath surveyed 213 New England communities; the results were published in the Linguistic Atlas of New England (with 734 maps) in 1939 43.

The first dialect dictionaries and grammars were most often written by scholars describing the dialect of their birthplace or by fieldworkers whose main method of investigation was free conversation with speakers of the dialect, usually older persons and, preferably, those who showed the least degree of literacy and who had travelled as little as possible.

Accordingly, the number of linguistic variables that can be examined is quite limited, in comparison with the number of dialectal features normally recorded by traditional fieldworkers in rural communities; in these situations, the investigator is often satisfied with one or two responses for each feature.

It's the road that took black Mississippi fieldworkers away from slavery, north and south into major cities where they could improve their lives – and the road that spread the blues across America, as the migrating masses carried the music with them.

Her novel, an intimate account of the lives of poor, rural Chinese fieldworkers, was a best seller for two years.

Vineyard owners pay an assessment of $10 per acre to help house and feed migrant fieldworkers, a program that costs more than $1 million a year.

The PCHR was described as saying that a woman, 37-year-old Nahla Khalil Najjar, suffered injuries to her chest in the flechette shelling, and pictures purporting to show the ammunition were passed on by a PCHR fieldworker.

He recounted how Dr. Khan, as he lay dying in the ward he had run for ten years, had whispered to a fieldworker, "James, I am going.

His father took a job as a fieldworker, and his mother picked cotton in the day and swept lumber shacks at night.

At a picnic ground in western Kentucky in 1969, Sharon Huizenga, a fieldworker, overheard a group of men talking about campus protesters, asking, "Why didn't they just kill a few?" "I thought, 'I'm one of them,' " Ms. Huizenga recalled in a telephone interview.

"I try to keep my speech in the Cadillac," a 73-year-old housewife in Astoria, Ore., told David Goldberg, a fieldworker from New York City.