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:
Jean-Marie Hombert
University of Lyon

Course days:
Monday 12 July 2010
Tuesday 13 July 2010
Wednesday 14 July 2010
Thursday 15 July 2010
Friday 16 July 2010

Course time:
16.00-18.30

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Language Classification: Africa

The course will focus on the presentation of the classification of African languages as well as the examination of new proposals since Greenberg's classification. The importance of language isolates will be discussed throughout the course as well.

NB. The language of Instruction will be English, unless all participants agree that the course should be taught in French.