Descripción y contextualización de la asignatura

This advanced course on linguistic typology is taught within the ‘Historical Linguistics and Typology’ section. In this course, we will put in practice some of the skills needed to conduct any kind of research in typology, focusing on the morpho-syntax of languages. Our goal is to perform a similar work to the one performed in Basic Typology, albeit in the opposite direction; instead of fully describing typologically a specific language, the students will classify and characterize different languages according to a given pattern or feature, offering a reasoned account and adequate examples.

Convocatoria ordinaria: orientaciones y renuncia

- Work in class and exercises: 30% of final grade

- Final written assignment: 70% of final grade



This evaluation system is designed for face-to-face teaching and will be adapted in the event that we enter a new state of health emergency and have to go to virtual teaching. In this case, the updated version of the program and the new evaluation system will be posted in the Egela virtual classroom

Convocatoria extraordinaria: orientaciones y renuncia

- Work in class and exercises: 30% of final grade

- Final written assignment: 70% of final grade



This evaluation system is designed for face-to-face teaching and will be adapted in the event that we enter a new state of health emergency and have to go to virtual teaching. In this case, the updated version of the program and the new evaluation system will be posted in the Egela virtual classroom

Temario

Typology of morpho-syntactic constructions and features:

(i) methodological considerations about typological research in morpho-syntax;

(ii) new approaches to word order;

(iii) sentence structure and predicate types;

(iv) causative and passive constructions;

(v) coordination, cosubordination and subordination.

Bibliografía

Materiales de uso obligatorio

WALS (World Atlas of Language Structures online).



Haspelmath, M., M. S. Dryer, D. Gil, B. Comrie (eds.), 2005, The World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford, Oxford UP.



Grambank (part of Glottobank): https://grambank.clld.org/



Descriptive grammars

Bibliografía básica

Croft, W., 2003. Typology and Universals. Cambridge UP.

Igartua, Iván. 2023. Fundamentos de tipología lingüística. Síntesis.

Pereltsvaig, Asya. 2017. Languages of the world: an introduction. 2nd ed. Cambridge UP.

Song, J. J. (ed.) 2011. The Oxford Hanbook of Linguistic Typology, Oxford: Oxford UP.

Velupillai, V. 2012. An Introduction to Linguistic Typology. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Revistas

Linguistic Typology



Studies in Language



Language



Folia Linguistica



Lingua

Enlaces

1) World Atlas of Language Structures: WALS.info



2) Grambank (part of Glottobank): https://grambank.clld.org/



3) Glottolog.org



4) Ethnologue.com



5) Linguistics universals of the University of Konstanz: https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/rara/category/universals-archive/



6) Surrey Morphological Group (feature list): http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/features/



7) Matthew Dryer’s maps: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~dryer/family_maps.htm



8) Syntactic Structures of the World's Languages (SSWL): https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/tools-at-lingboard/tools.php



9) DiACL (Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics): https://diacl.ht.lu.se/



10) SAILS (The South American Indigenous Language Structures): https://sails.clld.org/



11) APiCS (The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures): https://apics-online.info/contributions#2/30.3/10.0