2022/2023
Formal Approaches to Natural Language
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Mago-Lego
Delivered by:
School of Fundamental and Applied Linguistics
When:
2 module
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Natalia Morozova
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
28
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course introduces students to the theoretical foundations and applied aspects of formal modeling in linguistics. The first part of the course is theoretical. It is meant to familiarize students with both linguistic and non-linguistics background with the general issues of linguistics methodology, the history and state-of-the-art of structural macro-paradigm in linguistics and the formal apparatus of linguistic analysis. The second, practice-oriented part of the course provides students with the applied skills of formal modeling in syntax. Students learn about the possibility of using formal modeling in machine learning, automated text analysis and corpus linguistics. The course is taught in the 2st module of the 1st year of studies. The skills obtained within the framework of the course are important prerequisites for such courses as 'Automated Analysis of Natural Language' and the research seminar 'Methodology and Research Methods in Applied Linguistics'.
Learning Objectives
- The course aims to familiarise students with formal syntactic theories and applied techniques of modelling natural language
- The course aims to help students develop an ability to apply the methods and techniques of formal modelling in their own research
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Describes a segment of speech using a syntactic formalism
- Discusses the advantages and limitations of structural linguistics
- Discusses the advantages and limitations of formal approaches to natural language
Course Contents
- General methodological problems in linguistics. Internal and external factors paving the way for the development of formal approaches.
- Structural linguistics: emergence, main premises and schools. Advantages and limitations of the structural approach.
- Theories of formal syntax: dependency grammar, constituency grammar. Advantages and limitations of formal approaches.
- N.Chomsky's transformational-generative grammar
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Jurij D. Apresjan, & Dina B. Crockett. (2018). Principles and Methods in Contemporary Structural Linguistics: Vol. Reprint 2018. De Gruyter Mouton.
- Введение в языкознание, учебное пособие, 13-е изд., стер., 229 с., Камчатнов, А. М., Николина, Н. А., 2018
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Carnie, A. (2012). Syntax : A Generative Introduction (Vol. 3rd ed). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=531592
- Saumjan, S. K., & Miller, J. (2017). Principles of Structural Linguistics. De Gruyter Mouton.
- Введение в языкознание, учебник для академического бакалавриата, Нижегородский государственный университет им. Н. И. Лобачевского, 2-е изд., перераб. и доп., 494 с., Немченко, В. Н., 2016