UNSW Handbook Course - Theoretical and Descriptive Linguistics

Theoretical and Descriptive Linguistics - LING2500


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: Linguistics
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: LING1000 or LING1500; Excluded: LING3900
	Offered: To be advised
	Fee Band: 1

Description

Examines the various schools and movements in linguistics, including traditional approaches to language study (from antiquity to the neogrammarians), structrual linguistics, generative linguistics, typological linguistics, functional linguistics and cognitive linguistics. The course aims to acquaint students with some of the main theoretical, methodological and descriptive issues in contemporary linguistics.

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