2025/2026
Описание языка
Статус:
Маго-лего
Кто читает:
Школа лингвистики
Где читается:
Факультет гуманитарных наук
Когда читается:
2, 3 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Язык:
английский
Контактные часы:
32
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course is devoted to the basics of language documentation and provides a brief overview of various levels of language and aspects of its functioning: phonetics and phonology, vocabulary, grammatical structure, writing system, sociolinguistic situation. Various principles and formats of documentation are considered (databases, including typologically oriented ones; electronic dictionaries, atlases, and text corpora).
Learning Objectives
- The course is introductive and teaches basics of linguistic data culture.
- The course introduces a number of unusual phenomena at different language levels.
- The course is practically oriented: it gives the students the opportunity to provide their own analysis of a real data from an unfamiliar language, modelling thus common fieldwork practices.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Students will be familiar with various research techniques and methodologies employed in modern semantics, typology, contrastive linguistics
- describe the domain of Phonetics as a scientific discipline, identify some technological applications of Phonetics
- Use the basic methods of linguistic research, terms and concepts of morphology
- Students are acquainted with main terms and problems in phonetic and phonology and the diversity of phonological systems in languages of the world.
- Students are acquainted with main terms and problems of morphology and are able to navigate typological literature on topics such as wordhood, affixes, clitics, paradigms.
- Students are acquainted with main terms and problems in semantics and are able to navigate typological literature on main topics such as the opposition of lexical and grammatical meanings, types of lexical semantic shift and grammatical diachronic change
- Students understand which aspects of a language should be taken into account in its description and can apply this knowledge in their own practice.
- Students are aware of the difficulties that can be associated with the process of a language description and know how to deal with them.
- Students are familiar with the basic formats for lexical and grammatical systems representation.
Course Contents
- Introduction into language description
- Linguistic problems on phonetics and phonology
- Linguistic problems: morphosyntactic phenomena
- Linguistic problems: lexical systems
Assessment Elements
- Home assignment 1
- Home assignment 2linguistic problem
- Home assignment 3linguistic problem
- Home assignment 4linguistic problem
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 3rd module0.25 * Home assignment 1 + 0.25 * Home assignment 2 + 0.25 * Home assignment 3 + 0.25 * Home assignment 4
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Introducing morphology, Lieber, R., 2014
- Introducing phonetics and phonology, Davenport, M., 2010
- Introducing semantics, Riemer, N., 2010
- Key concepts in phonetics and phonology, O'Grady, G., 2013
- Linguistics : an introduction, McGregor, W. B., 2010
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Above and beyond the segments : experimental linguistics and phonetics, , 2014
- Key terms in semantics, Murphy, M. L., 2010
- Speech rate, pause, and sociolinguistic variation : studies in corpus sociophonetics, Kendall, T., 2013
- The Cambridge handbook of morphology, , 2016
- The Oxford handbook of linguistic typology, , 2011
- The sounds of language : an introduction to phonetics and phonology, Zsiga, E. C., 2013
- Understanding phonetics, Ashby, P., 2011