In this chapter, we want to look at the possible outcomes of your fieldwork. These will depend on your individual project goals, and may include a fieldwork corpus, archiving and the publication of your results. We also look at writing grammars and dictionaries and compiling language documentation. Some outcomes of fieldwork have already been discussed elsewhere, for example developing materials for the language community (see 4.4.4).

The fieldwork corpus

Talking about corpora, you may think of the British National Corpus with its 100 million entries. Your fieldwork corpus will (almost definitely!) be very different: it is made up of the collection of your data, in general all of the transcribed or written materials, as well as your field notes. Spoken corpora also exist, as do corpora linking sound and text, which are made possible by programs such as ELAN, Toolbox or CLAN (see 6.3.1 and 6.3.3).