Worksheets and Their Variants

NY PAPER with the title Worksheets and Their Variants should be preceded, I think, by some kind of apology. All well-trained dialectologists have been this route before. My hope is that some readers have not yet completed their initial preparation in the field, for such are the only people for whom this paper will hold anything new. Perhaps the best place to start is with a definition, or rather a distinction, between the terms worksheets and questionnaire. Some dialectologists have argued that only postal questionnaires or those that are filled out by the informant should be called questionnaires. Worksheets, they say, are used by fieldworkers in face-to-face encounters with informants. I will not be so

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