L432: Advanced Field Methods (3 cr)
Instructor: S. Obeng
TR 9:30-10:45A
WH 202
Section 2893

Prerequisite: LING L431.  Second part of two-semester course.
Open to undergraduates only.  Meets with LING L654.

Description:

Field methods, or field linguistics, is a means for obtaining linguistic data about
languages unknown to the linguist. In this course, students will learn how to work with
an informant, how to obtain a corpus of data, and how to organize and analyze the
data. In addition to the usual classroom activity, students will meet with the informant
for one hour each week to gather data. The language studied, Luo, is spoken in Kenya.

Students will be expected to write short grammatical sketches based on their findings.
There will also a mid-term exam and a final exam.