35.2945, FYI: Online course for early career linguists in eastern Africa

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Subject: 35.2945, FYI: Online course for early career linguists in eastern Africa

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Date: 21-Oct-2024
From: van der Wal Jenneke [elsea at hum.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: Online course for early career linguists in eastern Africa


Are you an Early Career linguist working 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.

See the full description in this pdf:
https://jennekevanderwal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/online-course-eastern-african-linguistics.pdf

Enhancing Linguistic Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA)
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 in July 2025,
to gain hands-on experience in linguistic data collection and analyses
(recording for documentation, digital data management, project
organisation, etc.).
The course is estimated to take 60 hours in total (including 14 hours
of seminars, and therefore roughly 3-3.5 hours of self study per
week). There will be a multiple choice exam at the end of the course.

Eligibility
All Early Career Researchers in linguistics in Eastern Africa are
welcome, i.e. PhD students and those <5 years after finishing their
PhD.
Points of attention:
•       The course will be in English, so a decent level of competence
is required to make the most of the course.
•       As the course is online, a good internet connection is
important – if you need support for wifi, you can indicate this in the
form.
•       You are expected to participate for the whole course and will
be awarded a certificate upon successful completion.
•       The most successful participants will be invited to attend the
fully funded summer field school in Kampala.

How to apply
Submit the following documents through this form by 15 December 2024:
https://fd24.formdesk.com/universiteitleiden/form692714801
•       your motivation for participation (max 250 words);
•       the topics you are working on/areas of interest (max 250
words);
•       a short CV with previous experience (qualifications, project
participation, publications; max 1 A4).
Notification of acceptance will be given around the 10th of January
2025.

Organisers/instructors
Lotta Aunio (Helsinki University), Bert Remijsen (Edinburgh
University), Allen Asiimwe (Makerere University), Saudah Namyalo
(Makerere University), Jenneke van der Wal (Leiden University), with
assistance by Håvard Weiberg-Johansen (Leiden University).

For any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us at
elsea at hum.leidenuniv.nl.

This course is made possible through a UNA Europa Africa Partnership
Seed Fund – see https://www.una-europa.eu/ for general information,
and the factsheet for information on the ELSEA project.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Cushitic
                      Narrow Bantu
                      Nilotic



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