35.3365, FYI: Online course for early career linguists in eastern Africa

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LINGUIST List: Vol-35-3365. Thu Nov 28 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.3365, FYI: Online course for early career linguists in eastern Africa

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Date: 27-Nov-2024
From: Jenneke van der Wal [elsea at hum.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: Online course for early career linguists in eastern Africa


Are you an Early Career linguist based in eastern Africa? Then this
course is for you! Many of the eastern African languages are in need
of (further) description, and who better to do that than local
linguists? To boost your descriptive linguistics skills, you now have
the opportunity to participate in this online course. The course is
developed in the project Enhancing Linguistic Scholarship in Eastern
Africa (ELSEA), funded by Una Europa.
Of the approximately 7000 languages that are used in the world today,
one third are endangered, and only about half have a proper
description. Describing languages is important because it forms the
foundation for school materials and books, for understanding cultural
heritage and history, and to determine the typology of language
structures. There is thus a large and urgent task, requiring good
linguistic skills. The ELSEA project, funded by Una Europa, aims to
enhance these skills through an online course and a field school.
In the online course, we cover the basics of descriptive linguistics
with a focus on the languages of Eastern Africa, from phonetics to
morphosyntax, so you can hear and transcribe tone, analyse
morphosyntactic data of Cushitic, Nilotic and Bantu languages, and set
up your own research project. There will be seven fortnightly online
interactive seminars, as well as self study in the form of video
lectures, exercises, and reading assignments to get you on top of the
material. The course runs from February-May 2025 (see preliminary
schedule below).
The most successful participants will be invited to attend the summer
field school, which is organised at Makerere University 26 July – 9
August 2025, to gain hands-on experience in linguistic data collection
and analyses (recording for documentation, digital data management,
project organisation, etc.).

See for detailed information and how to apply:
https://www.una-europa.eu/calendar/online-linguistics-course-for-early-career-linguists-in-eastern-africa
. Deadline is 15 December 2024.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Morphology
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Central Bantu
                      Cushitic
                      Nilotic



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