Linguistics I

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Course ID:	3501-KOG-L1
Erasmus code / ISCED:	09.301 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:	Linguistics I
Name in Polish:	Lingwistyka I
Organizational unit:	Institute of Philosophy
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
Prerequisites (description):	The aim of this course is to raise awareness about fundamental syntactic and morphosyntactic processes and to develop a set of skills useful in the analysis of natural language.
Mode:	Remote learning
Short description:	The aim of this course is to make students aware of the fundamental syntactic and morphosyntactic issues of natural languages. The empirical material of the course is mainly Polish – a morphologically rich and relatively free word order language. The emphasis is on the rigorous approach to inflection and the formal description of syntax, so the material and techniques covered during the course may be used in work on natural language processing, in psycholinguistics and in other interdisciplinary approaches to language. Platforms: Google Meet, Moodle.
Full description:	The course will cover two areas of linguistic inquiry (and two tiers of linguistic representation): morphosyntax and syntax. The morpho-syntactic system of Polish will be discussed in detail in order to showcase various approaches to the problem of classifying lexemes and word forms. The concepts introduced during the initial part of the course will be called upon during its second portion, which will be dedicated to the various existing approaches to natural language analysis, in particular constituency-based and dependency-based, as well as a hybrid approach in the form of Lexical Functional Grammar. Students will be introduced to the Chomsky Hierarchy (a method of classifying formal grammars and languages based on theoretical automata). The concepts of agreement, government, as well as syntactic selection restrictions will be discussed in structuralist terms, while selected syntactic phenomena specific to Polish (e.g. raising and control) will be discussed in generative terms. Classes will be devoted to practical applications of the notions discussed during the lectures in natural language analysis. The subject areas touched upon will include the following. - The notion of grammar (with particular emphasis placed on syntax and semantics) (1 lecture) - The inflectional system of Polish (2 lectures) - Syntax and morphosyntax and the complement and adjunct distinction (2 – 3 lectures) - The Chomsky Hierarchy (2 – 3 lectures) - Generative grammar (transformational vs. non-transformational approaches) - Selected issues in generative grammar: structural case, raising and control. Workload estimates: 30h (lecture) + 30h (classes) + 90h self-study.
Bibliography:	(in Polish) - A. Carnie (2012), Syntax: A generative introduction (Vol. 18). John Wiley & Sons. - M. Dalrymple (2001), Lexical Functional Grammar, Academic Press. - A. Przepiórkowski, M. Bańko, R. L. Górski, B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (2012), Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. - Z. Saloni i M. Świdziński (2011), Składnia współczesnego języka polskiego, PWN.
Learning outcomes:	Acquired knowledge: - familiarity with selected types of morphological and syntactic processes [K_W01, K_W03, K_W10 - familiarity with the morphosyntactic system of Polish [K_W02, K_W10] - familiarity with selected modern syntactic theories [K_W02, K_W03, K_W04, K_W05, K_W06, K_W10, K_W13] Acquired skills: - ability to distinguish between word-formation processes from inflectional processes and morphological processes from syntactic processes [K_U01] - ability to identify the type of a particular morphological or syntactic construction under consideration [K_U03] - syntactic and morphological analysis of Polish language data [K_U01, K_U02, K_U09] Acquired social skills: - active listening and following the reasoning of others [K_K02] - selecting and prioritizing information based on relevance [K_K02 - clear and orderly expression of complex and abstract ideas [K_U07, K_U09, K_U10, K_U11]
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Lecture: EP – written exam Class: PR – aggregated grade from in-class assignments

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