Latvian Descriptive Grammar

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Course ID:	3020-BB1GLO
Erasmus code / ISCED:	09.302 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0232) Literature and linguistics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Latvian Descriptive Grammar
Name in Polish:	Gramatyka opisowa języka łotewskiego
Organizational unit:	Department of General Linguistics, Sign Language Linguistics and Baltic Studies
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) 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:	elective courses
Prerequisites (description):	A2 level skills in Latvian.
Mode:	Classroom
Short description:	The course gives an overview of Latvian phonology (including suprasegmental phonology), the system of declination, nominal categories and the structure of the noun phrase; the system of conjugation of the Latvian verb and verbal categories; the syntax of the simple and complex sentence.
Full description:	The consists of three major parts, covering phonology, morphology and syntax. Phonology comprises both segmental and suprasegmental phonology. Morphology concentrates on grammatical categories (gender, number, case, definiteness, tense and aspect, mood and evidentiality, and voice—passive and reflexive). In the context of case the system of prepositions, relational adverbs and relational nouns is presented in detail. The inflectional systems of the noun and the verb are also discussed. An overview is given of the derivation of nouns and adjectives. The syntactic part covers the main structural types of simple and complex sentences. In this latter domain sentential complementation and its types receives systematic treatment, and the main structural type of adverbial clauses, including constructions with converbs, are characterized.
Bibliography:	Printed materials are distributed by the teacher
Learning outcomes:	On completion of the course the student KNOWLEDGE - has a deepened understanding of the structure of the Latvian phonological system, the nature and functional scope of the grammatical categories of Latvian, and the principal rules of Latvian syntax and morphosyntax. SKILLS - knows how to apply the structures explained during the lectures and internalized during exercises when actively using Latvian
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	The students are expected to take an active part in the exercises illustrating every grammatical topic; during the examination they show their skills in the application of grammatical rules in the form of a test and their theoretical insight in the form of answers to questions from a list distributed in advance.
Practical placement:	-

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