<p> Application Form African Linguistics School (ALS) 2013</p><p>Please fill out this form, and send it to: [email protected] The deadline for submission is March 29, 2013.</p><p>Name:</p><p>Sex: M or F</p><p>Citizenship:</p><p>E-mail Address: Note: Our primary method of communication will be through e-mail.</p><p>Telephone Number:</p><p>Mailing Address: Note: This should be your address between now and July 27, 2013. </p><p>References: Please list two of your professors as references. Provide their names, affiliations, and e- mail addresses. There is no need for you to obtain letters for recommendation from them.</p><p>1 Education: List each post-secondary institution (after high school) that you have attended. For each school give the following information: a. Name of school. b. Dates of attendance. c. Major/minor field of study. d. Degree received or anticipated.</p><p>Academic Positions Held: Note: This can include teaching assistantships.</p><p>Linguistics Courses Taken:</p><p>2 Dissertation/Thesis Title: Note: List the title of any dissertation/thesis that you have written. If you have not written a dissertation/thesis, that is OK. You are not required to have completed a dissertation/thesis to attend the ALS.</p><p>Research Interests: Research Interests: The description of research interests should be one to two pages long, and should give an indication of your areas of interest (syntax, semantics, phonology, language contact, languages of interest, and topics within these areas). If you do not have a research background, you can describe areas of linguistics in which you would like to do work in the future.</p><p>Your proposal should be at least two full pages (double spaced) pages long. For a proposal concerning syntax, semantics, phonology, or language contact your proposal should include: a. What language or language group are you in interested in? b. What phenomenon are you interested in? (e.g. nasalization, tone, vowel harmony, consonant harmony, reduplication, serial verb constructions, tense, mood, aspect, word order in the noun phrase, the distribution of prenasalized consonants, quantification, topic and focus constructions, word-order constraints on code-switching, language mixing in SMS (text-messaging), or any linguistic phenomenon that you are interested in.) Please give an example or two of the phenomenon that you are going to investigate. c. What do you find interesting about the phenomenon? d. What kinds of data do you propose to gather to investigate the phenomenon? e. How do you analyze the data, or how do you think they could be analyzed? (Just give a sketch. If you have not developed an analysis yet, don't worry). f. If you have done any background reading on the topic, what have you read? Please specify a few of the references that you are already studied.</p><p>3</p>