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Master 2021/2022

A Grammar of a non (Standard Average) European Language

Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Area of studies: Fundamental and Applied Linguistics
Delivered by: School of Linguistics
When: 1 year, 2-4 module
Mode of studies: offline
Open to: students of one campus
Instructors: Chiara Naccarato, Valentin Vydrin
Master’s programme: Linguistic Theory and Language Description
Language: English
ECTS credits: 7
Contact hours: 48

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course provides a brief introduction to the sociolinguistic situation of a language, describes different aspects of its grammar, from phonetics to lexicon, focusing on those features that represent typological interest, and ends with reading natural texts, both in classroom and as final control.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • The course provides a brief introduction to the sociolinguistic situation of a language, describes different aspects of its grammar, from phonetics to lexicon, focusing on those features that represent typological interest, and ends with reading natural texts, first as home assignment and then in the classroom. This course is introductive and has no prerequisites. It giges the students a chance to improve their research skills dealing with an "exotic" language.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • The students are able to create a list of 3-5 specific lexical phenomena of the language in focuse. They are able to identify 2-5 typologicaly interesting lexical groups of the language in focuse.
  • The students are able to interpret and to draw syntactic trees for sentences in the language in focuse.
  • The students are able to read and interpret glosses of the texts in the language in focuse. They are able to write glosses for such texts.
  • The students are able to reproduce a list of sociolinguistic features of the language in focuse.
  • The students are able to transcribe texts in the language in focuse and read the transcriptions. They are able to recognize and prononce sounds specific for the language in focuse
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Sociolinguistic setting and phonetics.
  • Morphonology and morphology
  • Syntax and discourse
  • Lexicone
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking quiz
    quizzes can be repassed no later than 7 days before exam, the questions are the same, but their order is not.
  • non-blocking homework
    if a student did not participate a discussion in reading class he/she can write an essay on a peper in focuse. dedline is no later than 7 days before exam
  • non-blocking quiz
    quizzes can be repassed no later than 7 days before exam, the questions are the same, but their order is not.
  • non-blocking homework
    if a student did not participate a discussion in reading class he/she can write an essay on a peper in focuse. dedline is no later than 7 days before exam
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2021/2022 4th module
    Grading is based on the results of the student’s assignments (most often, texts in the language). Each section of the course (i.e. each language) is graded separately. The final grade calculated as the weighted average of the grades in each section. The weight of each section is proportionate to the number of the classes (lectures and seminars, indiscriminately) delivered in the section.
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Introducing language typology, Moravcsik, E. A., 2013
  • Introducing sociolinguistics, Meyerhoff, M., 2019
  • Understanding morphology, Haspelmath, M., 2013

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Language typology and syntactic description. Vol.1: Clause structure, , 2008
  • Language typology and syntactic description. Vol.2: Complex constructions, , 2008
  • Language typology and syntactic description. Vol.3: Grammatical categories and the lexicon, , 2008

Authors

  • NAKKARATO MARIYAKYARA -
  • LEONTEVA ANNA LEONIDOVNA
  • VYDRIN VALENTIN FEODOSEVICH