Theoretical Linguistics
General details of the subject
- Mode
- Face-to-face degree course
- Language
- English
Description and contextualization of the subject
Una introducción a los fundamentos de la Lingüística y a sus niveles de análisis: fonología, morfología, sintaxis, semántica, pragmática y análisis del discurso. Se tratará desde la perspectiva de las Ciencias del Lenguaje pero en el contexto de las Tecnologías de la Lengua.Teaching staff
| Name | Institution | Category | Doctor | Teaching profile | Area | E-mail |
|---|
| GARMENDIA MUGICA, JOANA | University of the Basque Country | Profesorado Agregado | Doctor | Bilingual | Basque Philology | joana.garmendia@ehu.eus |
| SAN MARTIN EGUIA, ICIAR | University of the Basque Country | Profesorado Agregado | Doctor | Bilingual | Basque Philology | itziar.sanmartin@ehu.eus |
| ZUBELDIA ARRUABARRENA, LARRAITZ | University of the Basque Country | Profesorado Agregado | Doctor | Bilingual | Basque Philology | larraitz.zubeldia@ehu.eus |
Competencies
| Name | Weight |
|---|
| Identification of techniques to represent linguistic knowledge. | 12.0
%
|
| Capacidad para evaluar técnicas de representación de conocimiento lingüístico y escoger la representación óptima. | 12.0
%
|
| Understanding of the basic strategies of language analysis and deepen in their adaptation and specific applications in dealing with human natural languages. | 12.0
%
|
| Knowledge of the basic principles of the modules that constitute human natural languages. | 12.0
%
|
| Identification of linguistic phenomena within language modules. | 12.0
%
|
| Knowledge about the techniques to represent linguistic knowledge. | 12.0
%
|
| Knowledge about different approaches to linguistic analysis. | 25.0
%
|
Study types
| Type | Face-to-face hours | Non face-to-face hours | Total hours |
|---|
| Lecture-based | 20 | 30 | 50 |
| Applied computer-based groups | 40 | 60 | 100 |
Training activities
| Name | Hours | Percentage of classroom teaching |
|---|
| Lectures | 50.0 | 40
%
|
| Prácticas con ordenador, laboratorio, salidas de campo, visitas externas | 100.0 | 40
%
|
Assessment systems
| Name | Minimum weighting | Maximum weighting |
|---|
| Critical debate in the classroom | 10.0
%
| 10.0
%
|
| Essay, Individual work and/or group work | 30.0
%
| 30.0
%
|
| Questions to discuss | 20.0
%
| 20.0
%
|
| Written examination | 40.0
%
| 40.0
%
|
Learning outcomes of the subject
Conocimiento de los diferentes modelos de análisis lingüístico.Aplicación de conocimiento teórico a casos prácticos en fenómenos lingüísticos.Temary
1. Bases y características de las lenguas naturales 2. Ramas de la lingüística: Conceptos básicos 2.1. Fonética y Fonología2.2. Morfología y morfofonología 2.3. Sintaxis2.4. Semántica léxica y semántica formal 3. Uso del lenguaje 3.1. Pragmática 3.2. Análisis del Discurso 4. Lingüística de Corpus 4.1. Lingüística de corpus vs Lingüística derivado del corpus 4.2. Humanidades Digitales5. Aproximaciones y disciplinas en Lingüística Bibliography
Basic bibliography
Biber, Douglas, Susan Conrad and Randi Reppen. 1998. Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fromkin, Victoria A. and Robert Rodman. 1998. An Introduction to Language. New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishers. 6th Edition (reedited: Fromkin, A. V., Rodman, R., Hyams, N. 2014. An Introduction to Language. Harcourt. Brace College Publishers. 10th Edition)In-depth bibliography
Baker, Paul. 2010. Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics. Edinburg: Edinburg University Press.Bloomfield, Leonard. 1933. Language. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.Bronckart, Jean-Paul. 1997. Activité langagière, textes et discours. Pour un interactionisme socio-discursif. Paris: Editions Delachaux et Niestlé.de Saussure, F. Course in General Linguistics (Ed. by Charles Bally & Albert Sechehaye in coollaboration with Albert Riedlinger), MCGRAW-HILL BOOK CO., NY, 1966.Finegan, Edward. 2008. Language, Its Structure and Use (Fifth Edition). Boston: Thomson Wadsworth.Horn, L. R. and G. Ward (eds.). 2004. The Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell. Jackendoff, R. 1994. Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature. Basic Books.Levinson, S. 1983. Pragmatics. New York: Cambridge University Press.McEnery, Tony and Andrew Hardie. 2012. Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. N. Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965); Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press O'Grady, William, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff and Janie Rees Miller. 2010. Contemporary Linguistics (Sixth Edition). New York: Bedford/St. Martin's.Pinker, S. 1986. The Language Instinct. New York: Harper Perennial.Portner, Paul. 2006. "Meaning". In Ralph W. Fasold & Jeffrey Connor-Linton (eds.), An Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Badford, A.Transformational Syntax (1981); Cambridge, CUP.Saeed, John I. 2009. Semantics. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.
