International Summer School on
Language Documentation and Description

Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden

5 July - 17 July 2010

Programme & Courses

The summer school program contains a number of courses designed to train participants in the techniques of language documentation and description. Monday through Friday, there will be three sessions of courses. Session One will take place from 9:30-12:00, Session Two will take place from 13:00-15:30, and Session Three will take place from 16:00-18:30. Upon registration, students will select the courses they will follow each session. All sessions include a short break midway through the time period.

More information on each of the courses can be found below. Please note whether courses are one or two weeks in length. Applications will be treated on a first come, first serve basis. It is therefore possible that a course you wish to attend is already full. If this situation occurs, you will be notified and asked to select a second option while remaining on a waiting list for your first option.

For certain courses, basic educational requirements are necessary and noted along with the course description on the website. In certain cases, you may be unable to attend a course if your background is judged to be insufficient. In that case, you will be able to select a different course to follow. Moreover, we reserve the right to reject applicants as we see fit (e.g. if, in our opinion, basic requirements are not met).

Short Courses

• Practical Issues in Doing Documentary Fieldwork (taught by Graziano Sava)
• Introductory Course in American Sign Language (ASL) (taught by Erin Wilkinson, Shane Gilchrist and others)

Week 1 Courses

• Introduction to (Documentary) Sign Linguistics (taught by Angela Nonaka and Erin Wilkinson)
• **FULL** Tone (taught by Constance Kutsch Lojenga) - NB. This is a two week course
• Introduction to Nakh-Daghestanian (Caucasus) (taught by Diana Forker)
• **FULL** Database Theory and Design (taught by Tyler Peterson)

• West African Languages (taught by Denis Creissels)
• Theory and Practice of Data Collection for Phonological Analysis (taught by Lolke van der Veen)
• **FULL** (Electronic) Grammar Writing (taught by Sebastian Nordhoff)
• Areal course: Topics in Austronesian and Papuan languages (taught by Marian Klamer)

• **FULL** Software Tools for Linguists (taught by Stuart McGill)
• Sign Language Documentation – Advanced Level (taught by Angela Nonaka, Erin Wilkinson, and Victoria Nyst)
• Amazonian Languages (taught by Antoine Guillaume)
• Bantu Linguistics (taught by Thilo C. Schadeberg)

Week 2 Courses

• Negation Systems (taught by Oliver Bond)
• **FULL** Tone (taught by Constance Kutsch-Lojenga) - NB. This is a two week course
• Semantic Fieldwork (taught by Tyler Peterson)
• Field Phonetics (taught by Heriberto Avelino)
• Practical Issues in Doing Documentary Fieldwork (taught by Graziano Sava) - NB. only Thursday, 15 July

• Documenting Kinship Terminology (taught by Raymond Mayer, assisted by Pascale Paulin)
• The Art of Writing a Grammar (taught by Maarten Mous)
• Language Variation: Fieldwork and Contact Linguistics (taught by Kofi Yakpo, Rachel Selbach and Margot van den Berg)
• Practical Issues in Doing Documentary Fieldwork (taught by Graziano Sava) - NB. only Thursday, 15 July

• Language Revitalisation: Practical Considerations for Programme Development (taught by Julia Sallabank)
• Language Classification: Africa (taught by Jean-Marie Hombert)
• Introduction to the Tlapanec Language (taught by Søren Wichmann)
• A Practical Course in Dictionary Making (taught by René van den Berg)