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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Dear linguist,</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Between August 5 and 18 2013 an intensive course will be offered in language description and fieldwork,</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">at Aarhus University. A brief description is given here, and a link to additional information.</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">It will be two weeks of full time work. A reading package will also be provided, to be read in advance of the course.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Please forward to interested individuals or organizations.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Note the deadline in two weeks.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">A brief course description is found here:</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#191919" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:11pt;color:#191919;"><b>Language Description and Linguistic Fieldwork</b></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#191919" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:11pt;color:#191919;"><i>ECTS: 10. </i></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#191919" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:11pt;color:#191919;"><i>Level: Master. </i></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#191919" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:11pt;color:#191919;"><i>Date: 5-18 August. </i></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#191919" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:11pt;color:#191919;"><i>Venue: Aarhus </i></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#191919" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#191919;">In the first part of the course, students will learn the structure of an exotic language. This language is Shua, a Khoe-K</font><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">w</font><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#191919" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#191919;">adi language (</font><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">a so-called "click language"</font><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#191919" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#191919;">) spoken in Botswana. The course is not geared towards conversational competence in that language, but in providing insights</font><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#000000"
style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"> into its structure and usage</font><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#191919" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#191919;">. T</font><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">he t</font><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#191919" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#191919;">eacher Bill McGregor has extensive fieldwork experience in Australia and Africa. </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#191919" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#191919;">In the second week, students will learn theoretical, ethical, methodological and ethnographic aspects of linguistic fieldwork. Students</font><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"> will</font><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#191919" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#191919;"> learn how to analyze the structure of an unknown language. T</font><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">he t</font><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#191919" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#191919;">eacher is Eeva Sippola, who did extensive fieldwork in the Phillippines. Classes also involve practical sessions with a speaker of an unfamiliar language. Required pre-course readings will be
provided. </font><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">The c</font><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#191919" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#191919;">ourse </font><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">is </font><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#191919" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#191919;">offered by Department of Aesthetics and Communication.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Verdana" size="+0" color="#191919" style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12pt;color:#191919;">Lecturers: William McGregor, first week. Eeva Sippola, second week.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">More information is provided here:</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face=""" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:"font-size:11pt;color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.au.dk/en/summeruniversity/courses/aestheticsandcommunication/" target="_blank">http://www.au.dk/en/summeruniversity/courses/aestheticsandcommunication/</a></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">(note, however, that the Shua intensive course will be offered in the first week, and the practical fieldwork course in week two)</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Peter Bakker</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Peter Bakker email: <a href="mailto:linpb@hum.au.dk">linpb@hum.au.dk</a></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Linguistics tel. (45) 87162146</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Inst. for Æsthetics and Communication </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Aarhus University tel. institute: (0045)87162156</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Bygning 1485- 619</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">DK 8000 Aarhus C</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">parcels:</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Peter Bakker, Lingvistik</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">c/o</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Aarhus Universitet, Intern Post/Adm.</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Fredrik Nielsens vej 7, bygn. 1444</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">DK-8000 Aarhus C</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Danmark</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">home page:</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><a href="http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/peter-bakker" target="_blank">http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/peter-bakker</a>(357d6496-4535-4eb4-9296-e88fe32cbd5c).html</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">home page: <a href="http://person.au.dk/en/linpb@hum.au.dk" target="_blank">http://person.au.dk/en/linpb@hum.au.dk</a> </font></div>
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