Course
Course 7.5 credits • LINC12
Teaching – spring semester 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to affect our education and most of the teaching must take place completely digitally until further notice. Pay attention to the information in the schedule and/or in Canvas – the information is continuously adjusted based on current decisions and recommendations.
In this course the student will get to know a wide variety of strategies by means of which different languages deal with the same communicative needs (e.g. question formation, relativization, distinguishing subject and object, mapping semantic roles to grammar).
The student will also learn how to use an understanding of processing and economy to explain how these strategies work, and why some are much more frequent than others.
By working with authentic language data, the student will further become aware of the similarities and differences between syntax and morphology, and how they interact as different manifestations of the same underlying mechanisms.
The student will also gain experience of examining samples of a language which they are not acquainted with, making typological generalizations and predictions about it, and abstracting the grammatical system so as to be able to translate simple new examples to and from the language in question.
Study period:
spring semester 2021
Type of education:
both campus/online
Type of studies:
part time, 50 %,
day
Study period:
2021-01-18 – 2021-03-23
Language of instruction:
English
Application code:
LU-75601
Eligibility:
General and Linguistics: Human Language - Structure and Application (LINB21) or the equivalent
Introductory meeting: Wednesday, 20 January at 10.15 – 12.00
Teachers:
Victor Bogren Svensson,
Arthur Holmer,
Mechtild Tronnier
- Schedule
- Exam schedule
- Canvas Lingvistik: Fortsättningskurs/LINC12
- Library Guide Language and Linguistics
- Library Guide Linguistics
- Library Guide Lingvistik
Information on included parts
- Written Presentation of Group Work , 1.5 credits
- Written Invigilated Exam , 2 credits
- Written Take-home Exam , 4 credits
Second Admission Round
Nationell ansökningsomgång
Spring semester 2026
Application opens 15 September
15October 2025
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