Fieldwork

Third-year student Margit Bowler is currently out in the Australian bush doing fieldwork on Warlpiri. She reports on a ‘minor’ incident involving a car blowing up below (see picture): Kaboom, the car blew up! I’m completely fine (and so is everyone else who was in the car); I was just extremely tired the next day…

A number of department members were out in the field this summer. Here are some field reports: Sozen Ozkan writes: This summer, I started working on Turoyo which is a North-western Neo-Aramaic language spoken in Tur-Abdin area of Mardin in Eastern Turkey. Ktobhonoyo is the written language of the Syriac community in Turkey and Turoyo still…