Language Typology

This course offers an introduction to typological traits used in the classification and analysis of the world's languages. These traits may be of a morphological, syntatic, semantic, pragmatic or phonological character, and various language areas may be emphasized. The course also teaches students to work with formal frameworks (such as LFG, HPSG) in relation to languages that contain radically different properties from what the frameworks are originally based on.

The objective is that the students get an understanding of how the morpho-syntactic construction of languages can vary typologically, and at the same time learn how grammar formalisms can be built up to reflect these variations.

Lectures and group instructions.
More on assessment: Obligatory exercises must be approved before students are allowed to take the exam. The size of the exercises must be between 6-10 typed A4-pages each (line spacing 1.5). The size of the take-home exam depends partly on the subject, but is usually between 10-30 typed A4-pages (line spacing 1.5).