How to Pay for Linguistic Fieldwork; by The SpecGram Editorial Board; From Volume CLVIII, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, April 2010. \u2014 The thing is is that fieldwork is expensive, and yet we have to somehow pay for it. Or we won\u2019t get to do it. And really, heaven help the poor soul who can\u2019t pay for a trip even to Tahiti, and has to try to come up with some topic on English syntax that hasn\u2019t already been beaten like a dead metaphor. (Read by Trey Jones.)