Course Length: 7 Months
Students learn to analyze, describe language structure and develop an alphabet in a way that is helpful to literacy, communication, teaching and Bible translation.
Linguistics
Linguistics Training Overview
Receive in-depth, practical linguistic training and assessment in the following areas of language:
Phonology (Alphabet Building)
Students learn how to analyze and discover the significant sounds. Those sounds will be used to develop an alphabet for an unwritten language.
Morphology (Word Building)
Student learn how words are constructed in different languages. They will learn to distinguish and describe alterations to core words.
Syntax (Phrase, Sentence Building)
Languages assemble phrases, clauses, and sentences differently. Syntax helps you to understand how God designed a language and to analyze and describe that structure to your co-workers to accelerate everyone’s language learning and clear communication.
Discourse (Story Building)
Stories have to be told using specific grammatical forms in order to sound natural. Discourse analysis helps the linguist to discover that natural pattern and use that pattern in their communication and Bible translation.
Live-Language Project
The in-class linguistic training concludes with a ten-week practicum project. This includes seven weeks of live language sessions with a speaker of target language and three weeks of compiling the results of your analysis of the sounds and structures.
Why is linguistics important?
This postgraduate training will prepare you to collect and analyze language data to form alphabets for unwritten languages. It also prepares you to analyze grammar and discourse in a way that produces clear communication and a natural Bible translation.
What will this training prepare me to do?
Language learners frequently encounter difficulties understanding grammatical constructions in other languages. Linguists describe difficult grammatical concepts in ways that non-linguist language learners can understand and then progress in their learning.
