Teaching Workshop: Tools for the Study of Linguistics and Languages

The workshop is for those students who have already had an exam in Linguistics. It aims at illustrating and experiencing some resources and tools available for online contemporary research concerning linguistic sciences' different fields and approaches (genealogical, geographic-areal and typological ) to be applied to the analysis of structural features and phenomena shown by languages. The workshop allows the students to acquire informatic skills and abilities that are functional to a deeper knowledge, use and search for instruments freely available for linguistics on the net, such as bibliographical repertories, scientific databases, sites of scientific societies etc.

The student will be able to know, describe, explain and properly use the online resources for linguistic sciences and for languages proposed by the workshop, with reference to their nature, history, aims and website's configuration. The students will show their personal and autonomous abilities in using these tools also by searching for a specific topic selected by them to represent an individual project and a personal and creative report to be illustrated and discussed at the end of the workshop.