23 00 12 Language Documentation in West Africa ENGLISCH SI/II, ANGLISTIK MA, LINGUISTIK MA HS A.3/A.5 2 SWS, Mi 16-18, C01-273

 
• Introduction
• General Orientation
• The first mini-project: sources of information
• Report design
  • Design tools and formats
  • Overview of document content
  • Overview of document structure
• Sample plan for documentation content
  • Information sources (all media)
  • Maps
  • Language courses: e.g. Hausa
  • Pidgins and Creoles: Portuguese, English, French
  • Local languages: Ega, Hausa, Ibibio
  • Sound (speech, music, ...)
  • Linguistic information
  • Cultural, social, political information
• Specialised documentation: phonetics, phonology, prosody
• Specialised documentation: lexicon
  • Preparatory tasks
  • Content of a lexicon
  • Organisation (abstract architecture) of a lexicon
  • Layout of a lexicon
• Specialised documentation: grammar
  • Basic grammatical distinctions
• Integrating the document
  • Source documents
  • Target documents
  • Translation from source to target