Field Methods

4 credits · Undergraduate

This course provides students with training in linguistic fieldwork, language documentation, and language description by working directly with a speaker of an under-documented language to document and describe their language. Students will develop methodological skills via linguistic elicitation and subsequent data processing and curation, and develop analytical skills by preparing concise and relatively theory-neutral linguistic descriptions on particular grammatical topics. Student will also learn about the ethical, political, and interpersonal issues involved in linguistic fieldwork in a practice-oriented framework.