Pre-requisites

LD807 Language learning and linguistics for community participation

Co-requisites

None.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:

• Explain the principles underlying the structural study of grammar

• Examine language data and identify words, phrase, clauses using grammatical concepts

• Construct and justify grammatical patterns based on language data

• Read and critically evaluate a specific topic of grammatical literature of your choosing

• Self-assess your work and apply feedback from others to make improvements in your work

Unit Description

This unit provides an introduction to grammatical analysis, understanding the interplay of other aspects of linguistic structure for the communicative purposes of language, and developing the practical skills and tools to enable students to think analytically and formally about the structure of a language. This unit examines a wide range of typological patterns which are common in the world’s languages and students analyse real language data from typologically diverse languages and identify, define, and describe the component parts of that data using accepted linguistic terminology. The course will be based primarily on data from poorly described languages.

Topics

Foundations of Grammatical Analysis Clause & Argument Structure Semantic Roles and Grammatical Relations Morphology & Typological Variation Information Structure & Pragmatics Valency & Argument Structure Alternations Complex Sentences & Clause Linking Theoretical Frameworks in Dialogue

Assessment and Indicative Load

Assessment types include Quiz, Portfolio, and Research Paper. Indicative study load is 160 hours.

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Unit offerings

Face to face: (Demand based)

Please note

The Unit Offerings listed above are a guide only and the timetable for any year is the final authority. The College may vary offerings based on demand, regulatory requirements, continual improvement processes or other conditions.

This unit may be available in different modes of delivery i.e. online and face-to-face as listed above. The unit content will not differ between these modes of delivery. There will possibly be a difference in the schedule and/or the prescribed assessment tasks, however both will cover and assess the same content.