M. Ryan Bochnak is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, "Cross-linguistic Variation in the Semantics of Comparatives," investigated the semantics of comparative constructions in Washo (isolate/Hokan) and Luganda (Bantu).Lisa Matthewson is Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests center on semantic variation and universals, with specific attention to modality, tense, aspect, quantification, and presupposition. She has worked on St'at'imcets (Salish) since the early 1990s, on Gitksan (Tsimshianic) since 2010, and has recently begun investigating Niuean (Austronesian) and Tlingit (Na-Dene).

• Introduction ; M. Ryan Bochnak and Lisa Matthewson ; Part 1: General Overview of Elicitation Techniques ; 1. A practical epistemology for semantic elicitation in the field and elsewhere ; Jurgen Bohnemeyer ; 2. The Problem with No-Nonsense Elicitation Plans (for semantic fieldwork) ; Meagan Louie ; Part 2: Techniques for Particular Semantic Domains ; 3. Documenting and Classifying Aspectual Classes Across Languages ; Leora Bar-el ; 4. Investigating gradable predicates, comparison, and degree constructions in underrepresented languages ; M. Ryan Bochnak and Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten ; 5. Targeted construction storyboards in semantic fieldwork ; Strang Burton and Lisa Matthewson ; 6. Reasoning about equivalence in semantic fieldwork ; Amy Rose Deal ; 7. Investigating D in Languages With and Without Articles ; Carrie Gillon ; Part 3: Using Language-Internal Evidence to Guide Semantic Fieldwork ; 8. Linguistically establishing discourse context: two case studies from Mayan languages ; Scott AnderBois and Robert Henderson ; 9. Semantic fieldwork on TAM ; Rebecca T. Cover ; 10. Deriving topic effects in Kiowa with semantics and pragmatics ; Andrew McKenzie ; 11. Reciprocity in Fieldwork and Theory ; Sarah E. Murray ; 12. Theories of meaning in the field: Temporal and aspectual reference ; Rebecca Cover and Judith Tonhauser