27.780, Summer Schools: Language Description and Linguistic Fieldwork/Denmark

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Subject: 27.780, Summer Schools: Language Description and Linguistic Fieldwork/Denmark

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 12:24:28
From: Marlene Staib [marlene.staib at gmail.com]
Subject: Language Description and Linguistic Fieldwork/Denmark

Language Description and Linguistic Fieldwork/Denmark 

Host Institution: Aarhus University, Denmark
Coordinating Institution: Aarhus University, Denmark
Website: http://www.au.dk/en/summeruniversity/courses/language-description-and-linguistic-fieldwork/

Dates: 25-Jul-2016 - 05-Aug-2016
Location: Aarhus, Denmark

Focus: The summer school course in language description and linguistic fieldwork will give you a broad introduction to the practical and methodological aspects of fieldwork, and the art of language description. It will also provide insight in the structures of two unfamiliar languages. The course consists of two parts: a structural course on a non-familiar language and fieldwork workshops with a speaker of an under described language.
Minimum Education Level: Undergraduate

Description:
Intensive course in a non-familiar language. The language chosen will have a
range of properties unfamiliar from European languages. This course will teach
the structure of the Australian language Warrwa (Nyulnyulan), a moribund
language of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The course is not
geared towards conversational competence in that language, but to insights
into the structure of this language. Phonology, morphology, syntax and more
will be covered. Nyulnyulan languages form a small family (non-Pama-Nyungan)
of about ten languages, none of which is presently viable. Some of the
interesting and/or unusual features of Nyulnyulan languages, including Warrwa,
are: optional ergative case marking, the existence of two person-number
systems in the pronouns (one for free pronouns, the other for bound pronouns),
“free” word order, a system of verb classification coded Language Description
and Linguistic Fieldworkin a compound verb construction, an unusual (for
Australia) system of verbal conjugation, an applicative construction, and a
complement construction expressing the desiderative.The summer school course
in language description and linguistic fieldwork will give you a broad
introduction to the practical and methodological aspects of fieldwork, and the
art of language description. It will also provide insight in the structures of
two unfamiliar languages. The course consists of two parts: a structural
course on a non-familiar language and fieldwork workshops with a speaker of an
underdescribed language.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                      Language Documentation
                      Sociolinguistics

Tuition: 552 EUR

Tuition Explanation: Any student with a pre-approval from a Danish Institution or a nomination from
an International Partner: No Fee 

EU/EEA students without a preapproval or nomination: 552 EUR

NON-EU/EEA students without a preapproval or nomination: 1550 EUR

Registration: 01-Feb-2016 to 15-Mar-2016

Contact Person: Peter Bakker
                Email: linpb at dac.au.dk

Apply on the web: http://www.au.dk/en/summeruniversity/application/application/aususys/

Registration Instructions:
International Freemovers (EU and non-EU applicants who attend a university
that does not have a bilateral partnership agreement with Aarhus University
and EU and non-EU applicants who are not currently attending a University)
applying for AU Summer University courses must apply by using the online
application system before March 15 2016. Along with your application you must
hand in the required documentation for your university studies (if
applicable).

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