650.01 Field Methods I U G 5
Prereq: Two courses at the level 500 or higher or permission of instructor;Repeatable to a maximum of 40 credit hours
Methodology for determining the grammatical system of an unfamiliar and under-researched language working with a native speaker of the language.
The purpose of this course is to develop skills in elicitation, analysis and description of grammatical data obtained directly from a native speaker. The course provides hands-on practice in techniques for organising elicitation sessions and critical evaluation of elicited data. The field language will be a little-known language and generally non-Indo-European, but "unusual" Indo-European languages such as Albanian or a member of the Celtic family might also be used. Languages studied in the past have included 'Are'are, Sundanese, Kikongo, Kono, Chechen, Lushisha, Efik, Quechua and Angas. In the first quarter, the focus is on ear training, allophonic and morphophonemic alternations, basic morphological structure, and a general survey of sentence structure. Three short term papers form the basis of the grade.
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