The specific availability for this course is not currently known. If you would like to know if this course will be offered during your session, please contact us.
The class will be blended, i.e. students will study online on the world’s largest E-Learning platform in linguistics: The Virtual Linguistics Campus (www.linguistics-online.com) and deepen their understanding of the topics discussed in the virtual sessions and in the workbook through various activities during fortnightly in-class sessions with the instructor.
The purpose of this class is to examine the various ways in which language has been an object of study as well as to familiarize the student with the terminology and methodology of 20th century linguistic science. It provides the theoretical and descriptive foundations for the investigation and solution of language-related problems, especially those of language use, but also problems of psycholinguistics and historical linguistics. As a consequence, this class tends to be interdisciplinary in many ways.
Throughout the class students will be required to analyze language data from a variety of different languages in order to develop a feeling for and proficiency in the proper techniques of linguistic analysis.
