LING2003 Introduction to Syntax

Later Year Course

Offered By	School of Language Studies
Academic Career	Undergraduate
Course Subject	Linguistics
Offered in	First Semester, 2011 and First Semester, 2012
Unit Value	6 units
Course Description	In this course students will become acquainted with the fundamental concepts of syntax and with a wide variety of syntactic structures found in the world's languages and will develop skills in syntactic analysis. Examples will be used from languages from every inhabited continent, and students will learn how to go about analyzing the syntax of an unfamiliar language.
Learning Outcomes	read descriptive and typologically oriented books and articles about syntax apply a range of concept and terms from syntax to data that exemplify them solve simple problems in grammatical analysis undertake guided research in the grammatical structure of languages of different types, for example as in field methods courses on unfamiliar languages, or to support the teaching of more familiar ones
Indicative Assessment	three Analysis problems worth 50%, one Research Report of 1500-2000 words worth 25%, one 2hr final exam, worth 25%
Workload	2 hours of lectures and 1 tutorial per week. Students can expect to spend about 5 hours/week outside lectures.
Areas of Interest	Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Eligibility	No special eligibility requirements
Assumed Knowledge and Required Skills	No special knowledge and skills beyond the Requisite Statement
Requisite Statement	Introduction to the Study of Language (1001/2001), or with permission of the Convener, Structure of English (LING1020/2020 or LENG1020/2020). These may also be taken concurrently, with permission of the Convenor.
Prescribed Texts	An anthology of texts to be studied will be supplied in electronic brick form, and additional material will be available on line.
Preliminary Reading	Pinker, S., How Language Works, ch 4, p 83-125, Harvard University Press, 1994
Indicative Reading List	Comrie, B., Language Universals and Linguistic Typology, Revised edition, Oxford: Blackwell, 1989 Dixon, R.M.W., Ergativity, Cambridge University Press, 1994 Shopen, T., Language Typology and Syntactic Description, 2nd edition, 3 vols, Cambridge: Cambridge Universiy Press, 2007
Majors/Specialisations	Japanese Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and Linguistics
Other Information	This course is required for Honours in Linguistics.
Academic Contact	Dr Avery Andrews

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