This unit focuses on the investigation and explanation of linguistic universals through a consideration of the variation in type found across the world's languages. It considers primarily issues in syntactic and semantic typology with topic areas including the coding of grammatical relations, case marking, constituent order, voice systems, complex sentence constructions, and the semantic categories of tense and aspect. -- Course Website
Instructor: Assistant Professor Celeste Rodriguez-Louro
Prerequisites: (LING2002 Phonetics and Phonology: the Sounds of the World's Languages or LING2201 Phonetics and Phonology) and [LING2001 Grammatical Theory: the Structure of Sentences or LING2202 Grammatical Theory (Syntax)]
