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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

175-326/426 Study of A Language Family

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

16.7 3rd and 4th year

Coordinator:

Jean Mulder

Prerequisite/s:

175-211/311 Syntactic Description and Typology.

Contact:

Three hours of lectures and/or practicals a week.

Subject Description:

A detailed study of a chosen language family enabling students to become 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; and to have a greater appreciation of the diversity of human language, and also its universal characteristics.

Assessment:

Practical assignment problems and an analytical paper, totalling 5000 words at third-year level and 6000 words at fourth-year level.
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