The aim of the course is to make students familiar with the basic methods and results of the typological approach to the study of language. In this course typology will be treated as the classification of languages based on their structure, as the study of systematic patterns found in languages, and as a linguistic theory. Based on examples of different world languages, the basic methods of linguistic typological analysis will be presented. Students will become acquainted with basic theoretical concepts and phenomena related to typology: language type, language universals – absolute and implicational –, typological markedness, grammatical hierarchies, language economy, iconicity, semantic maps, etc. The final objective of the course is to render students capable of performing analysis of structurally different languages.
- Nositelj kolegija: Marco Angster