Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Linguistics
- Code
- BBI-ANG17-342E.05
- Title
- Elective seminar in Linguistics: Linguistic Typology
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 5
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- Aim: The course aims to discuss how different and yet similar languages are across the world by looking at the most famous linguistic classifications and studying typological maps.
- Course content
- Content: Linguistic typology studies languages and groups them together according to their phonological, morphological, and syntactic features. Among other things, the students will learn that English and other familiar languages of Europe often turn out to be not that 'typical' and that they are quite unusual compared to languages of Africa, South Asia, or Amazonia. The topics covered in the course: phonological, morphological, morphosyntactic, syntactic typologies, word order.
- Assessment method
- Assessment: In-class no-grade exercises and the final graded project (an essay + presentation).
- Bibliography
- Literature: handouts and selected chapters from World Atlas of Language Structures (online).