Year Semester SPACE, The Program of Short-term Studying Abroad at Saga University Subject Title Field Methods in Linguistics Instructor KOGA, Hiroki Credits 2.0 Day/Period of Time Course Description The aim of this course is for each student to be able to analyze an indigenous foreign language he or she has not known, eliciting linguistic data from an informant of the language. NB in Registration It might be helpful to those who are seriously thinking of seeking a higher degree in academics (or scientific research into certain phenomena) or to those who would like to learn a yet-undescribed foreign language. Class Plan This course is an introduction to scientific research into an indigenous foreign language or dialect. The target language may be, for example, 1) languages or dialects that participants of this course are native speakers of and 2) dialects of the Japanese language, e.g., Saga western and eastern dialects, Yamaguchi dialect, that participants' tutors or friends are native speakers of.   Students are required to report short grammatical (morphological and syntactic) sketches for grammatical patterns in class based on their findings and make six to seven 15-20 minute oral presentations in class in one semester. So, in addition to usual class, each student will meet with his or her informant for one-to-two hours every week to elicit data.   If you have already known the language or dialect, then you are required to do more work than normal.   If you want to take another two credits of this course after having taken two credits from this course in a previous semester, you need to work more for the same language or dialect or need to choose another language or dialect different from the one you analyzed in the previous semester.   You will see how you can find a linguistic pattern of a language through eliciting data of the language from an informant, as an example from the instructor. Day Contents 1 syllabus, example of Lang Info, Informant Info by instructor 2 1) Example of SV pattern by instructor, 2) Each student's decision on the lang/dialect to analyze (incl., asking of someone to be an informant in this semester), and Students' Presentations on Lang Info, Informant Info 3 1) Example of SVO pattern by instructor, 2) Students' Presentations on SV pattern (will be continued) 4 Students' Presentations on SV pattern 5 1) Example of PP pattern by instructor, 2) Students' Presentations on SVO pattern (will be continued) 6 Students' Presentations on SVO pattern 7 1) Example of N/A[+Predicative]-copula pattern by instructor, 2) Students' Presentations on PP pattern (will be continued) 8 Students' Presentations on PP pattern 9 1) Example of Present, Past, Future by instructor, 2) Students' Presentations on N/A [+Predicative] pattern (will be continued) 10 Students' Presentations on N/A [+Predicative]-copula pattern 11 Students' Presentations on Present, Past, Future (will be continued) 12 Students' Presentations on Present, Past, Future 13 will be used for schedule adjustments 14 Students' Presentations on a very short fairy tale of the lanauge or dialect 15 Students' Presentations on a very short fairy tale of the lanauge or dialect   Grade  1) reports and presentations of grammatical sketches: 80% and  2) attendance and participation: 20%. Textbook Name Author Publishing Co. ISBN Year         References Name Author Publishing Co. ISBN Year   Link   Office Hours