Linguistic Typology 3020-BA2TJE
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
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.
Type of course
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Requirements
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course the student:
Is aware of phonological, grammatical and lexical diversities among languages
Is capable of analyzing phonological, morphological and syntactic phenomena in specific language (given their adequate description)
Understands the relations between phonology, morphology and syntax in diverse languages.
Can place Polish and Baltic languages in typological classifications and understands the implications of typological classification of a language
K_W06, K_W08, K_U07
Assessment criteria
Written essay
Final grade
Bibliography
1. 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.
8. Hans Christian Luschoetzky, Zarys typologii języków
9. WALS (World Atlas of Linguistic Structures (on-line)
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