672 Language Description U G 3-5
Prereq: 601
Informant techniques and (if available) textbooks and published linguistic analyses are employed in analyzing and describing a language.
In this course, a staff member directs students in the description of a language with which they are not necessarily familiar. Informant work, laboratory techniques, and the consultation of textbooks and existing linguistic descriptions may be employed. A final analytic paper is usually required.
Each time the course is given the following information will be supplied in advance: the language to be treated and the number of credit hours (whether 3, 4, or 5). A particular instance of this course can be expected to stress certain aspects of description (syntax, morphology, phonology, phonetics, semantics) more than others, and different instances of the course will employ sources of information differently. Among the languages treated in the past are Albanian, Arabic, Bantu, Canadian French, Estonian, Finnish, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Luganda, Miwok, Modern Greek, Old Norse, Tagalog, and Welsh.
Offered 2007-2008:
Offered 2008-2009 (projected):
Last modified 2001-05-25
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