Language Universals and Linguistic Typology - LING2680

   
 
School:  Linguistics
 
 
Contact: Amberber,Mengistu
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: LING1000 or LING1500; Excluded: LING2612
 
 
Offered: Semester 1 2005
 
 
Fee Band: 1
 
 

Description


Examines language universals and linguistic typology. Explores linguistic categories across a wide range of languages, including word classes, case, transitivity, negation, complex predicates and complement clauses, among others. Also examines language-internal and language-external explanations for language universals.