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175-326/426 Study of A Language Family

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7 3rd year and 4th years

Coordinator: Jean Mulder.

Pre/Corequisite: 175-211/311 Syntactic Description and Typology.

Contact: Three hours of lectures and/or practicals a week.

Objectives:

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.

Content:

Detailed study of a chosen language family.

Assessment:

Practical assignment problems and an analytical paper, totalling 5,000 words.

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 129)

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Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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