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