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Lecturer(s)
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Kratochvíl František, M.A., Ph.D.
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Sio Joanna Ut-Seong, doc. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The course is organised around the following themes with the readings from the textbook and additional sources listed below: 1. Introduction: Whaley 1997, Ch. 1 2. Method, Explanation, And Markedness: Whaley 1997, Ch. 3 3. Explaining Universals: Comrie 1989. Chapter 1 & Moravcsik 2011 4. Basic Categories: Whaley 1997, Ch. 4 5. Constituent Order Typology: Whaley 1997, Ch. 5 & 6 6. Morphological Typology: Whaley 1997, Ch 7 & 8 7. Nouns And Modifiers: Whaley 1997, Ch. 10 8. Argument Realization: Whaley 1997, Ch. 9 & 11 9. Verbal Categories: Whaley 1997, Ch. 12 & 13 10. Subordination: Whaley 1997, Ch. 15 11. Sequencing: Whaley 1997, Ch. 16 12. Typology Of Sounds: Maddieson 2011 13. Sign language
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Observation, Demonstration
- Homework for Teaching
- 78 hours per semester
- Semestral Work
- 39 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 39 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course offers students glimpses into the vast research area of linguistic typology - the study of the similarities and differences among languages that hold across genetic, areal, and cultural boundaries. Students will be exposed to different languages and will be tasked to look for generalisations and suggest patterns or tendencies that can be found.
Upon completion of this unit, students should: - have a clear understanding both of the semantic and pragmatic categories often grammaticalized in the grammars of the world's languages, and of the different formal means that languages can utilize in expressing a particular semantic or pragmatic category; - understand the markedness and hierarchical relations between the different formal means of expression; - understand prototypes and their explanatory value; - be able to formulate and evaluate linguistic universals; - understand the relationships among grammaticalization, typology, and universals; - be able to apply knowledge of typology and universals in describing the grammar of a particular language, in describing the types of marking found cross-linguistically in a particular functional domain, or in doing comparative reconstruction.
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Prerequisites
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The participants should possess basic linguistic knowledge or are studying a non-European language.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Analyssis of the Student's Portfolio, Seminar Work
i. class attendance ii. required readings and assingments iii. final paper (demonstrating knowledge of literature and analytical skills)
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Recommended literature
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WHALEY, Lindsay J. (1997). Introduction to typology: the unity and diversity of language. Thousand Oaks, Ca.
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