175-426 Study of A Language Family

Note

Available as 175-326 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Students must have completed "Syntax' (175-211/311).

Semester

Contact

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.