Documentary linguistics 09-DL-EL-12

This is the first part of a lecture that introduces students to basic tasks and methods of contemporary documentary linguistics and let them acquire the skills necessary to participate in documentation projects. The focus is on lesser used and endangered languages, but general principles will also be applied to other languages such as Polish. This first semester is concerned with gathering and annotating linguistic data. In particular, students will: • learn about content, methods and aims of language documentation and explore documentations available on the Internet; • learn how to elicit and record data in linguistic fieldwork; • learn to apply techniques and tools for the transcription and annotation of linguistic data; • explore possibilities and techniques for “data harvesting” from Internet sources; • acquire a basic understanding of data management.

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Empirical Linguistics and Language Documentation: obligatory in the first year Other students: selective or facultative, first or second year of MA studies

30

lecture, discussion and excercises in classe; reading (homework); individual and group projects

no

according to study program; ELLDo: 4 ECTS credits

2nd cycle

Knowledge of English: B2 or higher

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