General linguistics 3020-11B2JO

The course presents selected aspects of linguistic typology, including phonological typology, morphological typology (words, speech parts, grammatical categories and their values), syntactic typology (selected syntactic construction, ordering of syntactic elements, order correlations) and lexical typology (selected semantic fileds, e.g. kin terms, color terms, body parts, dimension terms, motion verbs)
Topics:
1.Linguistic universals (deductive and empirical)
2. Goals and limitations of linguistic typology (structural types, frequent and exceptional phenomena; sampling, data quality)
3. Phonological typology
- vowel systems, consontat systems; vowel to consonant ratio
- the sonority scale and sylable structure
- stress and tone
4. Morphological typology
- "word" as a universal concept
- analitic and synthetic langauges; fusional and aglutinative languages; incorporating langages
- universality and non-universality of POS
- nominal categories (number, gender/class, case)
-verbal categories (tense, mood, evidentiality)
5. Syntactic typology
-configurational and non-configurational languages
-word order and word-order correlations
-typology of selected syntactic constructions
6. Lexical typology
- the semantic field
-universalism and relativism in lexical semantics
-typology of color terms
-typology of kin terms
-typology of dimension terms
-typology of verbs of movement

Term 2023Z:

The course addresses the issue of the role of typology in general lingustics. The first part of the course presents classical typological concepts and resulting language types, including:
Typologies of phonological systems: consonantal and vocalic languages, prosodic typology (tone and stress languages, typology of stress patterns)
Morphological typology: synthetic and analytical languages, inflectional languages; agglutinative vs. amalgamating languages; affix positions, formative types, words and clitics
Typology of grammatical categories: nominal categories including gender, class and case; verbal categories including tense, aspect, mood and voice
Syntactic typology: word order in clauses and in groups; centrifugal and centripetal languages; configurational and non-configurational languages; nominative and ergative languages
The second part of the course presents:
Other typological classifications: subject-driven, topic-driven, focus-driven and topic-focus boundary driven languages.
Typologies of specific constructions: possession, verbs of movement, secondary predication
Lexical and semantic typology: color terms, dimension terms, kinship terms.
Linguistic diversification vs. linguistic universals

Term 2024Z:

Course coordinators

Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz

Type of course

obligatory courses

Mode

Classroom

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course the student
- is aware of linguistic diversity
- recognizes basic linguistic structural types
-analyses grammatical phenomena in languages they do not speak (using structural glosses)
-can construct and verify hypotheses about grammatical structures

Assessment criteria

Written test; multiple choice questions
Lecture attendance -- 30 hours (1 ECTS)
Individual study -- 180 hours (6 ECTS)

Practical placement

none

Bibliography

Tadeusz Milewski, Językoznawstwo, (dział: Językoznawstwo typologiczne)
2. Renata Grzegorczykowa, Wstęp do językoznawstwa (rozdział: Elementy językoznawstwa typologicznego)
3. Adam Weinsberg, Językoznawstwo ogólne (rozdział: Typologia języków)
4. Joseph Greenberg, Rola typologii w rozwoju nauki o języku (w: H. Kurkowska, A. Weinsberg (red.) Językoznawstwo strukturalne, str. 229-242
5. Witold Maciejewski, O przestrzeni w języku. Studium typologiczne z językiem polskim w centrum.

Term 2023Z:

8. Hans Christian Luschoetzky, Zarys typologii języków
9. WALS (World Atlas of Linguistic Structures (on-line)

Term 2024Z:

8. Hans Christian Luschoetzky, Zarys typologii języków
9. WALS (World Atlas of Linguistic Structures (on-line)

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