| as of 7/2/2022 |
VARIATION AND UNIVERSALITY IN NATURAL LANGUAGE |
| Country - Partner Institution - Programs: | Netherlands - Utrecht University - 'Utrecht Univ.' |
| UC Course Subject | Linguistics |
| Number & Suffix: | 115 |
| Full UC Title: | VARIATION AND UNIVERSALITY IN NATURAL LANGUAGE |
| Transcript Title: | LANGUAGE VARIATION |
| UC QTR Units - Division: | 6.0 - Upper Division |
| Course Description: | This course furthers knowledge of grammatical theorizing, building on introductory linguistics courses. It focuses on methodological rigor, and addresses language variation from a typological perspective. Morphological and syntactic research in the last decennia has convincingly proven that it is possible to explain language phenomena in a wide variety of languages with a limited set of abstract principles interacting in a way that one can describe as “unity in diversity”. This course shows how syntax (and morphology) provide on the one hand an instrument for the principles of scientific theorizing and scientific thought, while on the other hand, how one can apply these tools to address language variation, and can steer research in acquisition and psycholinguistics. In this course students learn how to apply the core principles in the morphology and syntax of natural language when analyzing diverse material from a range of language, using different empirical courses, including corpora, databases, grammars, etc. |
| Language of Instruction: | English
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| Partner Title: | VARIATION AND UNIVERSALITY IN NATURAL LANGUAGE |
| Partner University Department: | Languages, Literature, and Communication |
| Partner University Course Number: | TW3V17001 |