General Linguistics 3020-13B2JO
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 fields, 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, consonant systems; vowel to consonant ratio
- the sonority scale and syllable structure
- stress and tone
4. Morphological typology
- "word" as a universal concept
- analytic and synthetic languages; fusional and agglutinative languages; incorporating languages
- 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 relative clauses
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
Type of course
Course coordinators
Mode
General: Classroom | Term 2023Z: Blended learning |
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, including multiple choice items and possibly solving linguistic problems.
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.
Additional information
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