Erasmus Mundus Master in Language
and Communication Technologies (LCT)

Theoretical Linguistics

This subject is an introduction to the foundations of linguistics and its levels of analysis: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse analysis. It will analyse language from a linguistics scientific perspective but within the context of the language technologies.

Syllabus

1. BASIS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF NATURAL LANGUAGES
2. BRANCHES OF LINGUISTICS: SOME BASIC CONCEPTS
   2.1. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
   2.2. MORPHOLOGY/MORPHOPHONOLOGY
   2.3. SYNTAX
   2.4. SEMANTICS (FORMAL AND LEXICAL SEMANTICS)
3. LANGUAGE USE
   3.1. PRAGMATICS
   3.2. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
4. CORPUS LINGUISTICS
   4.1. CORPUS BASED LINGUISTICS VS CORPUS-DRIVEN LINGUISTICS
   4.2. DIGITAL HUMANITIES
5. APPROACHES AND DISCIPLINES IN LINGUISTICS


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