Graduate Field Methods

4.0 credits

This is a hands-on, practical course preparing students to produce linguistic research based on data collected through elicitation. To achieve this, students will work with a speaker of an unfamiliar language and develop a research project based on the data they collect. The practical goals include: (i) obtaining familiarity with devising and refining elicitation strategies; (ii) analyzing data from an unfamiliar language; and (iii) receiving training in writing a grammatical description with appropriate terminology.