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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Lesley Stirling.
Prerequisite: 12.5 points of Linguistics at first-year level or Departmental approval.
Contact: Two lectures and a tutorial a week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
By the end of the subject, students should:
- understand and be able to apply the central concepts and notational devices of descriptive syntax;
- have developed skill in discovering, analysing and describing the grammatical structures of different languages;
- have acquired an awareness of the range of syntactic variation in human languages, and also their universal, invariant characteristics.
Content:
An introduction to basic concepts and methods of syntactic analysis and description from a typological, cross-linguistic perspective.
Assessment:
Regular assignment problems and a take-home examination paper, totalling 5,000 words.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 127)
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