Courses

Contemporary syntactic theory is commonly grouped into formal and functional theories. Each group has spawned a plethora of competing models. In this course, students will examine the philosophical underpinnings of some of the models of syntactic theory and...

This course explores the theory and practice of contemporary phonology with a focus on constraint-based approaches such as Optimality Theory contextualised within their historical foundations. The goal is to help students to appreciate how different...

This course takes a detailed look at selected issues at the centre of current debates in phonological theory. It explores the literature on recent proposals in different theoretical persuasions with the goal of critically evaluating theoretical proposals...

This course takes an in-depth look at selected theoretical and topical issues in linguistic phonetics. Students will do extensive reading and exploration of cutting-edge literature on recent proposals in phonetic theory. The goal of the course is to...

This course focuses on the conceptual underpinnings in the study of linguistic phonetics. It addresses the core issues at the heart of linguistic phonetics and offers phonetic explanations to various phenomena in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,...

This course provides a practical guide to various aspects of doing linguistic fieldwork. The student is introduced to the tools used to describe aspects of linguistics such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Emphasis is placed on data...

The main purpose of this course is to equip students with the knowledge and skills for conducting and writing advanced linguistic research projects in the form of research papers and theses. Students will be taken through the rigours of literature searches...

Students will write and submit a thesis on a specific topic for evaluation.

The course provides a historical overview of language and gender theory and research. It
examines the ways in which language is used by men and women, and the linguistic means by
which they are portrayed, in order to understand the process of gender (re)...

The course is designed to study the gap between word/sentence meaning and utterance
interpretation. It considers the variation, style, and interpretation of language use and strategies
of communication. Topics to be studied include truth versus non-truth...