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General linguistics

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Course ID:	3020-11B2JO
Erasmus code / ISCED:	(unknown) / (unknown)
Course title:	General linguistics
Name in Polish:	Językoznawstwo ogólne
Organizational unit:	Department of General Linguistics, Sign Language Linguistics and Baltic Studies
Course groups:	(in Polish) Polonistyczne minimum programowe (in Polish) Przedmioty obowiązkowe dla II rok filolgii polskiej od cyklu 2020 - stacjonarne 2-go stopnia (in Polish) Wszystkie przedmioty polonistyczne - oferta ILP (3001...) , IJP (3003...) i IPS (3007...)
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	7.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Mode:	Classroom
Short description:	The course presents selected aspects of linguistic typology, including phonological typology, morphological typology (words, speech parts, grammatical categories and their values), syntactic typology (selected syntactic construction, ordering of syntactic elements, order correlations) and lexical typology (selected semantic fileds, e.g. kin terms, color terms, body parts, dimension terms, motion verbs)
Full description:	The course presents selected aspects of linguistic typology, including phonological typology, morphological typology (words, speech parts, grammatical categories and their values), syntactic typology (selected syntactic construction, ordering of syntactic elements, order correlations) and lexical typology (selected semantic fileds, e.g. kin terms, color terms, body parts, dimension terms, motion verbs) Topics: 1.Linguistic universals (deductive and empirical) 2. Goals and limitations of linguistic typology (structural types, frequent and exceptional phenomena; sampling, data quality) 3. Phonological typology - vowel systems, consontat systems; vowel to consonant ratio - the sonority scale and sylable structure - stress and tone 4. Morphological typology - "word" as a universal concept - analitic and synthetic langauges; fusional and aglutinative languages; incorporating langages - universality and non-universality of POS - nominal categories (number, gender/class, case) -verbal categories (tense, mood, evidentiality) 5. Syntactic typology -configurational and non-configurational languages -word order and word-order correlations -typology of selected syntactic constructions 6. Lexical typology - the semantic field -universalism and relativism in lexical semantics -typology of color terms -typology of kin terms -typology of dimension terms -typology of verbs of movement
Bibliography:	Tadeusz Milewski, Językoznawstwo, (dział: Językoznawstwo typologiczne) 2. Renata Grzegorczykowa, Wstęp do językoznawstwa (rozdział: Elementy językoznawstwa typologicznego) 3. Adam Weinsberg, Językoznawstwo ogólne (rozdział: Typologia języków) 4. Joseph Greenberg, Rola typologii w rozwoju nauki o języku (w: H. Kurkowska, A. Weinsberg (red.) Językoznawstwo strukturalne, str. 229-242 5. Witold Maciejewski, O przestrzeni w języku. Studium typologiczne z językiem polskim w centrum.
Learning outcomes:	Upon completion of the course the student - is aware of linguistic diversity - recognizes basic linguistic structural types -analyses grammatical phenomena in languages they do not speak (using structural glosses) -can construct and verify hypotheses about grammatical structures
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Written test; multiple choice questions
Practical placement:	none

Classes in period "Winter semester 2023/24" (past)

Time span:	2023-10-01 - 2024-01-28	Selected timetable range: weekly course term Navigate to timetable MO TU WYK W TH FR
Type of class:	Lecture, 30 hours, 138 places more information
Coordinators:	Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz
Group instructors:	Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	Course - Examination Lecture - Examination
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Mode:	Classroom
Short description:	The course presents linguistic typology as a subfield of general lingustics. During the first part of the course classic approaches to typology are discussed, including phonological, morphological and syntactical typology. During the second part of the course new approaches are discussed, including lexical and semantic typology and semantically based syntactic typology.
Full description:	The course addresses the issue of the role of typology in general lingustics. The first part of the course presents classical typological concepts and resulting language types, including: Typologies of phonological systems: consonantal and vocalic languages, prosodic typology (tone and stress languages, typology of stress patterns) Morphological typology: synthetic and analytical languages, inflectional languages; agglutinative vs. amalgamating languages; affix positions, formative types, words and clitics Typology of grammatical categories: nominal categories including gender, class and case; verbal categories including tense, aspect, mood and voice Syntactic typology: word order in clauses and in groups; centrifugal and centripetal languages; configurational and non-configurational languages; nominative and ergative languages The second part of the course presents: Other typological classifications: subject-driven, topic-driven, focus-driven and topic-focus boundary driven languages. Typologies of specific constructions: possession, verbs of movement, secondary predication Lexical and semantic typology: color terms, dimension terms, kinship terms. Linguistic diversification vs. linguistic universals
Bibliography:	Tadeusz Milewski, Językoznawstwo, (dział: Językoznawstwo typologiczne) 2. Renata Grzegorczykowa, Wstęp do językoznawstwa (rozdział: Elementy językoznawstwa typologicznego) 3. Adam Weinsberg, Językoznawstwo ogólne (rozdział: Typologia języków) 4. Joseph Greenberg, Rola typologii w rozwoju nauki o języku (w: H. Kurkowska, A. Weinsberg (red.) Językoznawstwo strukturalne, str. 229-242 5. Witold Maciejewski, O przestrzeni w języku. Studium typologiczne z językiem polskim w centrum. 6. Alfred Majewicz, Języki świata i ich klasyfikowanie. 7. Anna Duszak i Nina Pawlak (red.) Anatomia gniewu : emocje negatywne w językach i kulturach świata 8. Hans Christian Luschoetzky, Zarys typologii języków 9. WALS (World Atlas of Linguistic Structures (on-line)

Classes in period "Winter semester 2024/25" (future)

Time span:	2024-10-01 - 2025-01-26	Selected timetable range: weekly course term Navigate to timetable
Type of class:	Lecture, 30 hours, 138 places more information
Coordinators:	Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz
Group instructors:	(unknown)
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	Course - Examination Lecture - Examination
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Mode:	Classroom
Short description:	The course presents linguistic typology as a subfield of general lingustics. During the first part of the course classic approaches to typology are discussed, including phonological, morphological and syntactical typology. During the second part of the course new approaches are discussed, including lexical and semantic typology and semantically based syntactic typology.
Full description:	The course addresses the issue of the role of typology in general lingustics. The first part of the course presents classical typological concepts and resulting language types, including: Typologies of phonological systems: consonantal and vocalic languages, prosodic typology (tone and stress languages, typology of stress patterns) Morphological typology: synthetic and analytical languages, inflectional languages; agglutinative vs. amalgamating languages; affix positions, formative types, words and clitics Typology of grammatical categories: nominal categories including gender, class and case; verbal categories including tense, aspect, mood and voice Syntactic typology: word order in clauses and in groups; centrifugal and centripetal languages; configurational and non-configurational languages; nominative and ergative languages The second part of the course presents: Other typological classifications: subject-driven, topic-driven, focus-driven and topic-focus boundary driven languages. Typologies of specific constructions: possession, verbs of movement, secondary predication Lexical and semantic typology: color terms, dimension terms, kinship terms. Linguistic diversification vs. linguistic universals
Bibliography:	Tadeusz Milewski, Językoznawstwo, (dział: Językoznawstwo typologiczne) 2. Renata Grzegorczykowa, Wstęp do językoznawstwa (rozdział: Elementy językoznawstwa typologicznego) 3. Adam Weinsberg, Językoznawstwo ogólne (rozdział: Typologia języków) 4. Joseph Greenberg, Rola typologii w rozwoju nauki o języku (w: H. Kurkowska, A. Weinsberg (red.) Językoznawstwo strukturalne, str. 229-242 5. Witold Maciejewski, O przestrzeni w języku. Studium typologiczne z językiem polskim w centrum. 6. Alfred Majewicz, Języki świata i ich klasyfikowanie. 7. Anna Duszak i Nina Pawlak (red.) Anatomia gniewu : emocje negatywne w językach i kulturach świata 8. Hans Christian Luschoetzky, Zarys typologii języków 9. WALS (World Atlas of Linguistic Structures (on-line)

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