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School of Culture History and Language · ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
In this course students will learn about with a wide variety of sentence and word structures found across the world's languages, including languages of Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The course showcases the rich diversity of expression in human language. Students will also learn about the fundamental concepts of syntax and morphology, and will develop core linguistic skills in morpho-syntactic analysis, applying these to a variety of languages
Analysis problems x 2, 1,500 words equivalence each (20% each for a total of 40%)
Learning outcomes 2, 3, 5
Research Report, 1,800 words
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Take-home exam, 1000 words equivalence
Learning outcomes 2, 3, 4, 5
Weekly check-in quizzes assessing major points (0.5% each for a total of 5%)
Learning outcomes 2, 3
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks: 12 hours of lectures, 24 hours of tutorial and tutorial-like activities; and b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading and writing. Other Information This course generally runs every year
The textbook will be specified on Wattle, and additional readings made available there.