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ELAP Workshop: The what, how and why of data collection in the field

SOAS, Thursday June 23rd 2005, 9.00am-6.00pm. Room BG04. Map and directions

If you are interested in attending, please contact Friederike Lüpke fl2@soas.ac.uk or Leora Bar-el lb35@soas.ac.uk

Program

9:00-9:30 Opening Remarks
  Session 1
9:30-10:00 Anthony Jukes
A Study in Contrasts: Two field sites in Sulawesi
10:00-10:30 Chaitra Puttaswamy
Data collection for multi-verb constructions
10:30-11:00 Lutz Marten
'Theoretically' driven fieldwork on Bantu syntax
11:00-11:15 Discussion
11:15-11:30 Break
  Session 2
11:30-12:00 Leora Bar-el
Eliciting aspectual distinctions: successes and challenges
12:00-12:30 Lucien Brown
The Development of Pragmatic Factors of the Korean Honorific System by Second Language Learners
12:30-1:00 Friederike Lüpke
50 ways to collect things - different kinds of data for the domain of verbal argument structure
1:00-1:15 Discussion
1:15-2:30 Lunch
  Session 3
2:30-3:00 Serge Sagna
Monolingual consultant sessions and elicitations
3:00-3:30 Gail Coelho
Text transcription and elicitation
3:30-3:45 Discussion
3:45-4:00 Break
  Workshop
4:00-5:00 Group discussion
  1. Establishing 'informed consent'
  2. A data collection 'checklist' for the linguistic fieldworker
5:00-5:30 Discussion
5:30-6:00 Concluding remarks
6:00 Drinks