LING 161

Language Documentation

Linguistics · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Issues in documenting languages, including collection of primary data using linguistic field methods, organizing data into documents (annotated texts, dictionaries, multimedia presentations, technical articles), audiences for language documents (speakers of target languages, linguists, scholars outside linguistics, general public), presentation and storage of documents (paper publication, online publication, electronic and physical archives), documenting endangered languages, and organizations and initiatives for documenting endangered languages. Presentations focus on case studies. Student projects in assembling primary data and creating annotated texts with commentary.

P/NP or letter grading.

Requisites

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Requisites: courses 20 (enforced), and 105 or 119A or 120A.

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LING 20
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Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

LING 161

LING 20Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
LING 105Morphology
- LING 20Introduction to Linguistic Analysisanother path to it
LING 119AApplied Phonology
- LING 20Introduction to Linguistic Analysisanother path to it

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