LING 2015 - Morphology and Syntax
North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2018
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General Course Information
Course Details
Course Code LING 2015 Course Morphology and Syntax Coordinating Unit Linguistics Term Semester 2 Level Undergraduate Location/s North Terrace Campus Units 3 Contact Up to 3 hours a week Available for Study Abroad and Exchange Y Prerequisites At least 12 units of Level I undergraduate study including LING 1101. Assessment Practical 1, 20%, Practical 2, 20%, Practical 3, 20%, Practical 4, 20%, Exam (1.5 hours) 20% Course Staff
Course Coordinator: Associate Professor Rob Amery
Course Timetable
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Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
This course aims to:
- Develop understandings of the nature of human language and identify differences with other systems of communication
- Develop understanding of the structure of language, specifically its morphological subsystems
- Develop understanding of morphophonemic processes in language.
- Develop understanding of the lexicon and lexical categories (ie parts of speech).
- Develop understanding of compositionality, constituency and dependency relations.
- Develop understanding linguistic typology with regard to morphology and syntax.
- Develop understanding about grammatical relations and their expression.
- Develop understanding of both lexical and derivational valence and their implications for argument structure.
- Develop understanding of a variety of complex sentence phenomena.
- Develop in students the ability to undertake grammatical analysis of unfamiliar languages, and an awareness of the range of coding phenomena encountered.
After successfully completing this course, students should be able to:
1. Use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to transcribe and interpret transcriptions of unfamiliar languages
2. Undertake a morphological analysis to identify the morphemes and allomorphs in any given language.
3. Identify constituent structure at an advanced level.
4. Establish and justify the lexical and grammatical categories for any given language.
5. Articulate understandings of the nature of language.
6. Undertake linguistic descriptive investigation of a known or unknown language through primary observation.
7. Write a coherent and logically argued review of a published grammar of an unfamiliar language, demonstrating a familiarity with widely used terminology and technical issues involved.
8. Confidently approach analysis of a data set drawn from an unknown language.University Graduate Attributes
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Learning Resources
Required Resources
Course text book: Thomas E Payne, 2006, Exploring Language structure: a Student's Guide. Cambridge University Press.
On-Line Resource: World Atlas of Linguistic Structures (WALS)Recommended Resources
Mark Aronoff & Kirsten Fudeman, 2005, What is morphology? Malden: Blackwell.
Laurie Bauer, 2003, Introducing linguistic morphology. Georgetown University Press.
Andrew Carnie, 2007, Syntax: a generative introduction. Second edition. Blackwell Publishing.
Nigel Fabb, Sentence structure. London: Routledge, 2005.
Nicola Grandi & Livia Körtvélyessy (2015) Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology. Edinburgh University Press.
Martin Haspelmath & Andrea Sims, 2010, Understanding morphology, 2nd edition. Abingdon: Routledge
Paul Kroeger, 2005, Analyzing grammar: an introduction. Cambridge University Press.
Stephen Levinson, 1983, Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press.
Robert M Millar (rev & ed), 2015, Trask’s historical linguistics, 3rd edition. Abingdon: Routledge
Steven Pinker, 1994, The language instinct. London: Allen Lane
Steven Pinker, 1999, Words and rules: the ingredients of language. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Maggie Tallerman, 2015, Understanding syntax, Fourth Edition. Abingdon: Routledge -
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Assessment
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- Assessment must maintain academic standards.
Assessment Summary
Assessment for this course will consist of four practical tasks and an end of semester test, worth 20% each.
The practicals will consist of analysis of data sets drawn from a range of different languages. The analytical tasks will address various aspects of morphological and syntactic analysis.
- Linguistic Practical #1 Due 17 August 2018
- Linguistic Practical #2 Due 7 September 2018
- Linguistic Practical #3 Due 28 September 2018
- Linguistic Practical #4 Due 26 October 2018
- Final Test on 1 November 2018
Assessment Detail
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Submission
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Course Grading
Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:
M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme) Grade Mark Description FNS Fail No Submission F 1-49 Fail P 50-64 Pass C 65-74 Credit D 75-84 Distinction HD 85-100 High Distinction CN Continuing NFE No Formal Examination RP Result Pending Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.
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