OJ522 Praguian linguistics and empiric functionalism

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Bohumil Vykypěl, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 15:00–16:35 A46
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 24 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/24, only registered: 0/24, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/24
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Course objectives
The cours deals with the relation of the Prague School and the Empirical ("Greenbergian") Functionalism (Bybee, Croft, Givón, Haspelmath and others).
Syllabus
  • Structuralist dogmas - Flexible stability of language - Pitfalls of linguistic reductionism - Being a phenomenological linguist - The strange word "typology" - The Praguean functionalism - The non-functional functionalism - Being a prophet of the future of linguistics...
Literature
  • COMRIE, Bernard. Language universals and linguistic typology : syntax and morphology. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981, xi, 252. ISBN 0631129715. info
Assessment methods
oral examination
Language of instruction
Czech
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