Focus:
The workshop includes:

• Intensive practical training in all the phases of documentation. Conception, elicitation, recording, signal analysis (ELAN, Praat, Audacity), annotation, archiving and dissemination.
• Introductory training in the Basque language. Grammar, Sociolinguistics and Social and Cultural History of the language, and Basque-Romance language contact.
• Personalized supervision of each of the projects accepted as well as of the fieldwork carried out during the workshop period.
  Minimum Education Level: MA
• ETCS credits: 6 or 9

The Universität Konstanz and the Université Bordeaux Montaigne are offering the II Basque Summer Tutorial in Language Documentation. It is funded and coordinated by the Université franco-allemande / Deutsch-französische Hochschule (UFA/DFH), the Van Riemsdijk Foundation, the research lab IKER (CNRS) and the Sonderforschungsbereich 1760 SiNoSi (DFG). The tutorial is a formative workshop, oriented to master and doctoral students, as well as other interested practitioners in language documentation. The workshop combines training related to the conceptual, technical, and ethical issues raised by the practice in language documentation, specific courses on the Basque language, and actual fieldwork in-situ. It includes a hands-on training in ELAN, Praat and Audacity. Access to the field, organized by the research lab IKER, will allow students to carry out original research work based on a personal project that they will have proposed to the workshop organizers as part of the preliminary conditions for inscription. The lab proposes to the interested researchers a network of Bascophone informants right at the terrain.

Linguistic Field(s):
General Linguistics, Language Documentation, Sociolinguistics, Typology

Subject Languages: Basque, Low Navarrese Basque, French

Tuition: 250 EUR

Tuition Explanation: Tuition fees cover accommodation for the whole summer school (11 days).

Application: Until 30-May-2026

Contact Person: Irantzu Epelde
Phone: 0033 – 559 574 209
Email: iepeldecendoyagmail.com

Apply by Email: iepeldecendoyagmail.com

Application Instructions:
We invite inscription proposals for the summer school. The proposals should be at most one page long (12pt), in Basque, Spanish, French, German or English. They should include: (i) a brief motivation of the interest to attend the school; (ii) a research issue, which should help us locate supervisors, resources and informants necessary to carry out the project successfully. The school will not admit more than 20 students. The students will be chosen according to the quality and the pertinence of the project they will have proposed. The projects will be evaluated by the organizers. Deadline for sending proposals: 30th May 2026; decision: 4th June 2026.

Registration: From the beginning of June after application acceptance