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The Navajo Language Academy
2011 Summer Linguistics Workshop
July 9 – 29, 2011
Location: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Courses:8:45-10:15 Introduction to the Navajo Verb
(Michele Kiser, UNM)8:45-10:15 Advanced Verb Structure
10:30 - 12:30 Introduction to Linguistics
10:30 - 12:30 Semantics
(Siri Tuttle, U of Alaska, Fairbanks)
(Ted Fernald, Swarthmore College)1:00 - 2:30 Language Acquisition
2:45- 4:15 Teaching Practicum
(Maya Honda, Wheelock College, and Wayne O'Neil, MIT)
(Irene Silentman, NLA)
Classes run 1 & 1/2 hrs each per day, 5 days per week, for 3 weeks.
Registration (click here)
Fees & Additional Information (click here)
See you in July!
Navajo Linguistics Workshops include:
• A course in a different subfield of linguistics each year (syntax, phonology, semantics, morphology)
• A course in Navajo verb structure
• Classroom techniques for teaching verb forms
• An overview of linguistics
• Colloquia by scholars
• Presentations and discussions of research in progress
• Discussions of language planning
• Time for collaborative research or lesson planning
The Workshops are Intended to Serve:
• Navajo linguists
• Navajo language teachers
• Other linguists with a research interest in Navajo or a related Athabaskan language
• Graduate and undergraduate students
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