LINN21, Linguistics: A Typological Case Study

Course code: LINN21
Swedish title: Lingvistik: En språktypologisk fallstudie
ECTS credits: 7.5  

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OBS! The course is not given this semester. The information below was about autumn 2012.

Study period: autumn 2012
Rate of studies: Half time, daytime
Study period: 2012-11-12 – 2013-01-20
Language of instruction: English
Application code: LU-75922
Eligibility: 90 higher education credits, of which at least 60 credits are from within a language discipline or Linguistics (General Linguistics or Phonetics), or the equivalent. English B (advanced) proficiency
Teachers: Gerd Carling, Arthur Holmer

Introductory meeting: 2012-11-13 kl. 13.00 – 15.00: Lingvisthuset sal 604

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Tentamen

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Description

The languages of Amazonia are genetically and typologically extremely diverse, and display a variety of unusual grammatical features (including object-initial word order, evidentials, ergative syntax etc.). The course offers a general survey of Amazonian languages with examples from various Amazonian languages from different families.