Universität Wien

160126 PR Scientific Practical Training in Theoretical Linguistics (2024W)

3.00 ECTS (1.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musikwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 40 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

There is an extra class on DO 07.11.2024 16.45-19.30 in Seminarraum 4 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG. This will be a mini workshop on using corpora for theoretical linguistics questions by an external teacher Dr Tamás Halm.

  • Friday 11.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 18.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 25.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 07.11. 16:45 - 19:30 Seminarraum 4 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 29.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 13.12. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 10.01. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 24.01. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 30.01. 11:30 - 12:30 Seminarraum 6 Sensengasse 3a 2.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Theoretical linguistics is concerned with finding regularities in language that shed light on the cognitive linguistic capacity of humans. Our methods differ depending on the type of data we have available. We will consider introspection by native speakers, designing a questionnaire to obtain written or spoken data from native speakers, and how to study theoretical linguistics questions in large corpora.
This term we have a rare opportunity to work with an actual speaker of a rare minority language and do field work from the comfort of our own classroom. You could call it "blind field-dating", if you like. We will develop a series of questionnaires and gather data from the speaker directly to check our grammatical hypothesis about this mystery language. But this is only fun if noone cheats! So by registering for this course, I am asking you to commit to using only field-work methods (e.g. interactions with the speaker) to uncover facts about the grammar of this language and to NOT use the internet or any other books or other external resources to look up information directly about the language.
By the end of the course, you will develop an understanding of how to use different kinds of data efficiently to explore theoretically informed research questions. If we do our job right, we will also learn a lot about the grammar of this mystery language.

Assessment and permitted materials

Attendance and active participation in class including the creation of questionnaires in a group work format (30%)
write a section on one aspect of the grammar of the language for Wikipedia in group work format (40%)
translate a short easy text into the language from German with your group (30%)
Given that the majority of the assessment is in a group work format, members of the group will receive the same grade for these components, otherwise previously agreed.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

A minimum of 50% must be achieved on all assessment components.

Examination topics

class material, your own collected data, your own data collection designs

Reading list

To be announced on Moodle

Association in the course directory

BA-APM10c

Last modified: Tu 14.01.2025 14:46