FF:CJBB184 Language Typology - Course Information
CJBB184 Language Typology
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2020
The course is not taught in Spring 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of linguistic terminology in English (like what are nouns, verbs, postpositions, affixes, articles, cases, comparatives, superlatives, ...)
- 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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The goal is to look at what variation we find in the languages of the world, and see what the limits of such variation are: language universals. At the end of the course, the students should gain some understanding of what is common in languages and what is rare, and what kind of languages we find on our planet. This helps in approaching concrete problems of translation, comparison etc.
- Learning outcomes
- The students will be able to
- describe in detail the basic theoretical framework for the systematic analysis of language diversity;
- apply the tools of typological analysis to genetically unrelated languages;
- explain how competing claims about cross-linguistic structural properties may be evaluated;
- analyse how typological analysis relates to historical linguistics, areal linguistics and language contact. - Syllabus
- Language Universals and language samples.
- Classification of languages.
- Word order.
- Case.
- Typology of spatial and color terms.
- Tense, Mood, Aspect.
- Phonological typology.
- Pidgins and Creoles.
- Literature
- required literature
- Song, J.J. 2001. Linguistic Typology: Morphology and Syntax. London, New York: Longman.
- Teaching methods
- Lecture, seminar.
- Assessment methods
- There will be a written exam at the end of the term.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2020, recent)
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