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» Keeleteaduse, filosoofia ja semiootika doktorikool
» 2009
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NordLing PhD course: Databases and typology
Tartu, 14.-18.09.09
To understand the linguistic phenomena of the particular languages, linguists need information about the representation, developments and types of the same or similar phenomena in other languages and in the human language in general; and vice versa, for the better understanding of the variegation of languages, linguistic typology generalises and classifies their characteristics. A lot of the existing knowledge about languages is converged in typological databases, focused on different linguistic phenomena. The aim of the course is to give an overview of existing typological databases, their use and creation, and of the typology and universals in general and of some categories (agreement, case, verbal categories, clause arguments, etc.) with special attention on the languages of the Nordic and Baltic area.
4 ECTS
The teachers are:
Alexis Dimitriadis (Utrecht University)
Seppo Kittilä (University of Helsinki)
Matti Miestamo (University of Helsinki)
Edith Moravcsik (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Frans Plank (University of Konstanz)
Menzo Windhouwer (University of Amsterdam)
The lectures will be held at the Main Building of the Tartu University (Ülikooli 18)
Schedule:
Mo 14.09
10-12 Edith Moravcsik:  What is language typology? (room 234)
12-14 Alexis Dimitriadis: Designing databases: a primer for linguists (room 139)
16-18 Alexis Dimitriadis and Menzo Windhouwer: How to integrate databases without starting a typology war: The Typological Database System (room 234)
Tu 15.09
10-12 Frans Plank: Konstanz Universals Archive (room 228)
12-14 Frans Plank: Case (room 228)
16-18 seminar (room 235)
We 16.09
10-12 Seppo Kittilä: Argument marking: discriminatory vs. indexing functions (room 139)
12-14 Seppo Kittilä: Semantic roles and argument marking (room 139)
16-18 seminar (room 235)
Thu 17.08
10-12 Edith Moravcsik: A trip to Agreementland, A trip to Agreementland 2 (room 234)
12-14 Matti Miestamo Exploring cross-linguistic variation: The case of negation (room 140)
16-18 seminar (room 235)
Fri 18.09
10-12 Matti Miestamo Current issues in the study of language complexity: A typologist's view (room 228)
12-14 seminar (room 235)
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