Course level

Undergraduate

Faculty

Humanities and Social Sciences

School

Languages & Cultures School

Units

2

Duration

One Semester

Class hours

3 Contact hours

Prerequisite

LING2010; plus LING2040 or LING2045

Assessment methods

Presentation of a weekly reading, Weekly group exercises, Case Studies, Report

Course enquiries

Associate Professor Ilana Mushin

Study Abroad

This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.

This course is not currently offered, please contact the school.

Course description

In this course, students will utilise the skills and methods they have learned throughout their linguistics major in exploring a family or geographical group of languages. The specific languages studied will vary from year to year, but may include groupings such as Australian languages, Romance languages, Afroasiatic languages, or Amerindian languages. Students will explore the social and historical context in which the languages were and are spoken, basic descriptive overview of phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic systems, typological classification, and examine current issues in the linguistic analysis of these languages. In addition to the class discussions which will look at the languages as a group, each student will work in depth on a single language from the group, making use of published and other available resources on the language.

Archived offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 2, 2020 (03/08/2020 - 21/11/2020) External External Course Profile
Semester 2, 2019 (22/07/2019 - 16/11/2019) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2018 (23/07/2018 - 17/11/2018) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2017 (24/07/2017 - 18/11/2017) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2016 (25/07/2016 - 19/11/2016) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2015 (27/07/2015 - 21/11/2015) St Lucia Internal Course Profile