Our courses: Theoretical models in language description

The course incorporates case studies in theoretical approaches to the analysis of different linguistic levels, from phonology to semantics. The main objective of the course is not to introduce the students to the whole theoretical inventory on all levels – such an overview is provided in introductory course on formal linguistics – nor to focus on detailed discussion of one whole theory. It is a series of lecture sequences each of which, after providing a brief and general overview of the principles one specific theoretical approach, focuses on those issues in linguistic analysis where this approach is (advertised to be) most applicable and most appropriate. Examples of such approach – issue pairs include: prosodic morphology in description of infixation; formal semantics as approach to quantification in natural language; formal syntax’ approach to movement etc. The course is taught by different professors, each presenting one approach to one linguistic level.