AL 5313 Advanced Grammatical Analysis

(3 semester hours) (SPRING)
After completing this course, students will be able to analyze a language from a functional-typological perspective and write a grammatical description. They will be able to describe various topics of morphosyntax, e.g., morphological type, basic word order and implicational universals, grammatical categories, noun phrases, case system, verb phrases and tense/aspect/modality, voice and valence, clause combinations, and subordination. In the study of each topic, they will use naturally occurring textual data as the primary basis of their description and look for the functional correlates in context. They will also have an understanding of markedness, grammaticalization, prototypes, and iconicity within the framework of morphosyntactic analysis and description.

Prerequisite:

AL 4410b Principles of Grammatical Analysis