LING 5105/8105 & 5106/8106 – Field Methods I and II

Syllabus and Discussion board can be found on the Canvas site.

Textbook:

Bowern, Claire. Linguistic Fieldwork: A Practical Guide.

Payne, Thomas E. Describing Morphosyntax.

Schedule:

Week 1: Introduction (Bowern Ch. 1)

Week 2: Starting to Work on a Language (Bowern Ch. 2)

Week 3: Fieldwork on Phonetics and Phonology (Bowern Ch. 5)

Week 4: Lexical and Semantic Data (Bowern Ch. 8)

Week 5: Basic Morphology and Syntax (Bowern Ch. 6)

Week 6: Constituent Order Typology (Payne Ch. 4)

Week 7: Further Morphology and Syntax (Bowern Ch. 7)

Week 8: Noun and Noun Phrase Operations (Payne Ch. 5)

Week 9: Predicate nominals (Payne Ch. 6)

Week 10: Pragmatically marked structures (Payne Ch. 10)

Week 11: Clause combinations (Payne Ch. 11)

Week 12: Discourse, Pragmatics, and Narrative Data (Bowern Ch. 9)

Week 13: Ethical Field Research (Bowern Ch. 11)

Week 14: Fieldwork Results (Bowern Ch. 12)

Week 15: Wrap-up