Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
Code
711131044
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Linguística
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Ana Maria Lavadinho Madeira
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
By the end of the course, students should:
a) be able to distinguish descriptive and normative attitudes in linguistic analysis;
b) be able to identify different components of linguistic analysis, as well as the units in each component;
c) be able to identify different grammatical categories and distinguish category from function;
d) be familiar with and be able to apply different methodologies appropriate for the identification of language units at each level of analysis;
e) be able to create paradigms relevant to linguistic analysis;
f) have developed the ability to observe and compare different language systems;
g) be able to make explicit which language strings are possible and impossible in languages which they are familiar with;
h) be able to draw conclusions through the manipulation of linguistic data.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Concepts of grammar. Standard language and variation.
2. Knowledge of language: language as a system and levels of linguistic analysis.
3. Linguistic analysis: different methodological approaches.
4. Speech sounds and sound structure.
5. Words.
5.1. Open and closed classes.
5.2. Word classes and subclasses: identification criteria.
5.3. Characterisation of word classes: nouns, determiners, quantifiers, adjectives, verbs, adverbs and prepositions.
6. Sentence structure: word order and relations among words.
6.1. The immediate and non-immediate constituents of the sentence; empirical constituency tests.
6.2 Predicates and arguments.
6.3. Identification of syntactic functions.
6.4. Sentences and clauses: simple and complex sentences. Coordination and subordination.
6.5. Word orders: crosslinguistic comparisons.
Bibliography
Cunha, Celso & Luis Filipe Lindley Cintra 1984. Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo, Lisboa: Ed. J. Sá da Costa.
Duarte, Inês 2000. Língua Portuguesa. Instrumentos de Análise. Lisboa: Univ. Aberta.
Eliseu, André 2008. Sintaxe do Português. Lisboa: Caminho.
Finegan, Edward 2004. Language: Its Structure and Use. Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth, 4ª ed.
Mateus, Maria Helena Mira et al. 2003. Gramática da Língua Portuguesa, Lisboa: Caminho, 5ª ed.
Mateus, Maria Helena Mira et al. 2005. Fonética e Fonologia do Português. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta.
Villalva, Alina 2008. Morfologia do Português. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta.
Teaching method
(a) Lectures.
(b) Practical classes: practice exercises, problem resolution.
(c) Take-home exercises.
(d) Short assignments: description, manipulation and analysis of data.
Evaluation method
Evaluation:
(a) Ten take-home exercise sets (20%)
(b) Two written tests (80%)