The purpose of the 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 never encountered before. The language of study this year will be Bubukun Bunun. The main emphasis will be on syntax, morpho-syntax, and semantic-syntax. Students will work on an individual project which can be on any aspect of the language in any linguistic theory, model or framework that they are familiar with or they have learned in the Syntax classes. In the end of the semester, a five-day field trip to the tribe village will be arranged. During this trip, students will be given chances to work intensively with more elderly native speakers in the village and get closely acquaintance with the local people and culture.