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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

175-211/311 Syntactic Description and Typology

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Lesley Stirling

Prerequisite/s:

12.5 points of Linguistics at first-year level or Departmental approval.

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

Two lectures and a tutorial a week

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 5000 words.
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