Introduction to Linguistic Analysis - 1st semester
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: the distributional method for the identificatin of linguistic units at the levels of:
3.1. phonology.
3.2. morphology.
4. Words.
4.1. Open and closed classes.
4.2. Word classes and subclasses: identification criteria.
4.3. Characterisation of word classes: nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, determiners, quantifiers and prepositions.
5. Sentence structure: word order and relations among words.
5.1. The immediate and non-immediate constituents of the sentence; empirical constituency tests.
5.2 Predicates and arguments.
5.3. Identification of syntactic functions.
6. Sentences and clauses: simple and complex sentences. Coordination and subordination.
7. 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.
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
a) Take-home exercise sets (20%).
(b) Two written tests (80%).