Courses

This course aims at equipping students with practical tools for analysing different genres of discourse. Students will be required to use different discourse analytical approaches for the analyses of texts (both spoken and written) from various domains. These...

This course is designed to expose students to competing theoretical approaches in discourse analysis. It covers a wide range of topical issues in approaches such as Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Conversation Analysis (CA), Political Discourse Analysis (...

This course will provide in-depth examinations of selected pragmatic phenomena within specific formal pragmatic theories. Possible phenomena to be examined include presupposition, context, implicatures vs. explicatures, conceptual vs. procedural meaning,...

The purpose of this course is to afford students insights into the genesis and development of pragmatics as one of the relatively new sub-disciplines of linguistics. Thus, students will be apprised, through extensive reading, of the origin of modern...

The purpose of this course is to equip students with the ability to examine aspects of word, phrase and sentence meanings within specific semantic theories. Thus, a few selected topics such as truth conditions, reference, thematic roles, lexical relations,...

The course aims at providing students with an appreciation of the critical debates that have characterized theories of semantics of natural languages, since the emergence of semantics as a viable sub-discipline of linguistic theory and analysis. It will...

This course provides a survey of current competing theoretical approaches to the study of Linguistic Morphology. Theories to be discussed include: Item and Process (IP), Item and Arrangement (IA), Word and Paradigm (WP), Construction Morphology (CM),...

This course provides an in-depth study of various perennial and problematic issues in morphological analysis. Competing views on the origins and development of various core concepts in Linguistic Morphology will be discussed. Topics to be covered include: The...

This course is designed to address topical issues in linguistic analysis and theory. The goal is to provide students with an in-depth understanding of specific themes and problem areas in linguistics that may not be adequately covered in existing courses but...

In this course, students will explore some issues associated with the analysis of some of the syntactic phenomena prevalent in African languages such as Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs), Focus Marking, Anaphora, Relative Clauses, Complementation, Inherent...