Graduate Course in Linguistics, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
University of Education Winneba
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Education, Winneba offered 2 graduate level intensive courses on Language Description and Analysis in January 2011:
Introduction into Lexical-Functional Grammar. January 10 - 20 2011
The course reviewed the basic principles of Generative Grammar with emphasis on the framework Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), and gave a practical training in applying the theory and its formalism to language data, predominantly from Ghanaian languages.
Instructor: Prof. Lars Hellan, NTNU, Norway.
Time: Jan 10, 11, 12, 13, with sessions in the morning and afternoon, including training sessions.
Language Description and Analysis - digital linguistic tools and their use.
The course focused on creating and managing of small research corpora and the the creation of interlinear glosses as part of linguistic methodology. Guidelines for creating linguistic research projects as well as the impact of new trends in language description and documentation on linguistic research were discussed.
Instructor: Prof. Dorothee Beermann, NTNU, Norway.
Time: Jan 17, 18, 19, 20, with sessions in the morning and afternoon, including training sessions.
The picture below shows some of the participants of the course at the end of the final session which took place at the computational centre at UOEW's North Campus:
from me, to the right is Adam Peter Passack, Pascal Kpodo in coat, then Geogina Sapaty lady in front of Pascal, in front of geogina is Issahaku Al-hassan, on his left is Abdul-Rahman Fusheini(in white)