International Summer School on
Language Documentation and Description

School of Oriental and African Studies, London

22 June - 3 July 2009
Instructors:
Maarten Mous

Email:
m.mous@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Course days:
Monday 29 June 2009
Tuesday 30 June 2009
Wednesday 1 July 2009
Thursday 2 July 2009

Course time:
14.00-15.30

Venue:
G51
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The art of grammar writing

The aim of the course is to become familiar with the kind of decisions that you are confronted with while writing a grammar. We will look at different practices, discuss pro's and con's, so that the partcipants are able to make up their mind and are prepared for a grammar writing task. Topics will include the genre of the descriptive grammar, organisation (of the book and the work), what should be included in the grammar, and how it should be labelled, and how to handle theoretical consequences of observations on the language under description.