LING407-12W (C) Whole Year 2012

Field Methods

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2012
End Date: Sunday, 11 November 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 2 March 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 31 August 2012

Description

A practical introduction to the means by which linguists obtain raw linguistic data from some language and begin the task of describing and analysing its structure.

This course is an introduction to linguistic field methods – the means by which linguists obtain raw linguistic data from some language and begin the task of describing and analysing its structure.  The course gives students the opportunity to put into practice and to refine what they have previously learned about linguistics.  This ‘hands-on’ involvement with analysing a language is a bit like the sort of on-the job training that is otherwise hard to come by in academic settings, and the students typically find this course an exciting and enriching experience.

Working on a regular basis with a speaker of a language not previously studied by the class participants, students together analyse the phonology, grammar and vocabulary of the language.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Programme Director.

Course Coordinator

Heidi Quinn

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Session Management 10%
Toolbox Data Management 10%
Phonetics/phonology chapter draft 20%
Peer review of independent research 10%
Independent Research Project 50%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Bowern, Claire; Linguistic fieldwork : a practical guide ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Recommended Reading

Payne, Thomas E; Describing morphosyntax: a guide for field linguists ; Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,502.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All LING407 Occurrences

  • LING407-12W (C) Whole Year 2012