3 credits
MW  1:00-2:15
GB 333

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

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
individually with the informant for one hour each week to gather data.
The language being studied is Tigrinya, a Semitic language of Eritrea.
Students will be expected to write short grammatical sketches based on
their findings and to make a final oral presentation.