Survey of General Linguistics

Survey of General Linguistics

Lectures:30

Seminars:30

Tutorials:0

ECTS credit:6

Lecturer(s): prof. dr. Marvin Derganc Tatjana

Content

Linguistics as an empirical science, defining the object of study, the data and methodology of contemporary linguistics.

The history of linguistics.
- A survey of five models:
- Traditional grammar;
- Medieval grammar;
- Historical grammar;
- Structuralism
- Generative grammar.

Language universals and language typology.

The phylogeny of language.

The ontogeny of language.