Course Description: The purpose of this course is to give students first-hand experience and training in developing techniques for eliciting, transcribing and annotating linguistic data by working with a native speaker of a Formosan language that students (might) have not encountered before. The language of study this year will be Atayal. The main emphasis will be on morphology, syntax, semantics, and a discourse-oriented approach to the working of grammar. Students will work on an individual project in any aspect of the language in a framework that they are most familiar with or they have learned in the Syntax classes. Toward the end of the semester, a five-day field trip to one of the Atayal tribal villages will be arranged, where students will have an opportunity to work intensively with more elderly native speakers and in the process come to better appreciate the intimate intertwining of language and culture of the Atayals.