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School of Letters Department of Humanities Human Sciences Course Linguistics & Applied Linguistics Major Major (Credit 2) Intended Year: Intended School: |
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (Lecture IX)
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Numbering Code: LET-HUM2719J Course Code: 16054404 2016 SpringTerm weekly Thu5 Hakozaki Classroom J科目 (日本語, 日本語) |
| Course Overview |
There are approximately 7,000 or more languages in the world. The advancement of the investigations of these languages has allowed us to recognize the overwhelming diversity of language structure, which is apparently difficult to capture using the traditional, euro-centric view on language. The strongest hypothesis about the linguistic diversity is that a language may vary in any way and with no limit. Linguistic typology challenges this hypothesis, arguing that it is in fact possible to make predictions about the way languages vary and why they are the way they are. This class allows students to have a basic idea of the methodology, key notions and limitations of this subbranch of linguistics. |
| Last updated | : 2016/3/11 (00:52) |