Morphology Syntax

AY2023/2024 Semester 1

This course builds on linguistic concepts introduced to you in HG2034 and HG2003. Through lecture materials, tutorial exercises, discussions, selected readings and hands-on assignments, this course will introduce you to the basic concepts and methods of morphological and syntactic description and analysis, with the main focus falling upon a functional-typological approach. We will investigate a wide range of morphological and syntactic phenomena taken from typologically diverse languages spoken on every inhabited continent, and we will examine what tools are needed to analyse their data.