3L Consortium - Lyon, Leiden, London  

International Summer School on
Language Documentation and Description

Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden

5 July - 17 July 2010
Instructor:
Antoine Guillaume
University of Lyon

Course days:
Monday 5 July 2010
Tuesday 6 July 2010
Wednesday 7 July 2010
Thursday 8 July 2010
Friday 9 July 2010

Course time:
16.00-18.30

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Amazonian Languages

This course will consist of an introduction to the diversity of the indigenous languages spoken throughout the Amazon basin, with a discussion of their history, their genetic classification, their endangerment status, and a selection of their linguistic typological particularities.

NB. For this class, the students will need to have previously followed at least an introductory course on typological morphosyntax, be at least a bit familiar with basic issues of argument-encoding mechanisms, grammatical relations, valency-changing mechanisms, alignment typology (symbols A, S and O), etc.