Field Methods LIN6165 Fall 2010 T 4 R4-5 / CBD 0238 Dr. MJ Hardman Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology Department of Linguistics University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Office: 384 Grinter/4123 Turlington 392-0629x231/378-9827 Office hours: Tuesday 12:30-2:30 Turlington Thursday 1:30-3:30 Grinter Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Perú website: http://at.ufl.edu/~hardman-grove/ The basic skill of any linguist is to discover structure in language. In this course you will learn how to do that by discovering structure in a language you do not know, starting only with paper and pencil, listening to and interacting with a native speaker of that language. You will learn how to construct questions that leave the answer open. You will learn how to avoid predetermining answers. You will learn how to avoid distorting data. You will learn how to make preliminary analyses, and then how to test those analyses, and then how to make new and different analyses. Then you will learn how to write up your early discoveries so that the material is available to other scholars. In all of this you will learn, in detail, how good ethics and good science mutually imply each other, that your science is a human science, human beings learning together with other human beings. 6. attendance is required. 7. no work can be made up 8. all disabilities are accommodated as appropriate 10. http://www.registrar.ufl.edu/catalog/policies/regulationgrades.html . TEXTBOOK: (Texts available at OBT) Hardman, MJ and Hamano, Syoko Saito. Language Structure Discovery Methods. Andean Press: Gainesville, FL. 4th edition. 1995. READING: Bohannan, Laura. Hamlet and the Tiv. Bohannan, Laura. Return to Laughter. Doubleday: Garden City, NY. 1964. OTHER MATERIALS: Yellow legal pad for initial consultant elicitation Flash slips of scrap paper for initial memorizing of each session Permanent file book — sewn, not spiral Box(es) for playfile 3x5 slips (several thousand) 3x5 cards (hundred or so) Variable index tabs in as many colors as possible— the kind that can be cut into varying lengths Minimum of 3 writing colors (black, green, red recommended) Computer use is optional. If you have access the Filemaker program then I can supply you with the layouts necessary to do some of the filing on the computer. HOME AND CLASS WORK: Problems will be assigned out of the book. Primary focus will be on the discovery of the structure of a language of our choosing. Papers: Two papers, one a phonemic statement, due in approximately 6 weeks; one a grammatical statement due the first day of test week. Both papers to be turned in to consultant as well as professor. Week One - Introduction. Begin Return to Laughter - Read all the preliminary materials and Chapter 1 Work through Chapter 2 Week Two - Read and work all problems in Chapter 3. Bohannan finished. - Read and work all problems in Chapter 4 Hamlet and the Tiv Week Three - Jaqaru, Tokyo and Quichua Problem sets Chapter 5 - Read Chapter 6 Week Four Begin elicitation with consultant Week Five Continue elicitation/analysis with consultant Week Six Continue elicitation/analysis with consultant Read Chapter 8 in preparation for writing paper Week Seven Continue elicitation/analysis with consultant Hand in Phonology paper Read Chapter 7 in preparation for grammatical analysis Week Eight Continue elicitation/analysis with consultant Week Nine Continue elicitation/analysis with consultant Week Ten Continue elicitation/analysis with consultant Week Eleven Continue elicitation/analysis with consultant Week Twelve Continue elicitation/analysis with consultant Week Thirteen Continue elicitation/analysis with consultant Week Fourteen Continue elicitation/analysis with consultant Week Fifteen Continue elicitation/analysis with consultant Week Sixteen Hand in grammatical statement paper Final meeting to discuss paper with consultant (TEST WEEK)