Not offered in 1996. 16.7 3rd year and 4th years Jean Mulder. 175-211/311 Syntactic Description and Typology. Three hours of lectures and/or practicals a week. By the end of the subject, students should:

• be familiar with the most important linguistic phonological, grammatical, sociolinguistic and historical aspects of the language family under study;
• be able to situate the language family in the context of other languages of the world with respect to its typological characteristics;
• have a greater appreciation of the diversity of human language, and also its universal characteristics.

Detailed study of a chosen language family. Practical assignment problems and an analytical paper, totalling 5,000 words.