Berber languages are spoken in a large, discontinuous area all over Northern and Saharan Africa. They are regarded as a branch in theire own of the Afroasiatic language phylum. In this course an analytical overview is provided over the different structures encountered in Berber languages, and over the different linguistic analyses for these structures which have been proposed.
For students in the Berber track of African Linguistics and in the Berber specialisation in the Arabic-Persian-Berber track of the MPhil Middle Eastern Studies are requested to supplement the course with a 5 ects assigment (MABER2).
Rooster
First semster, tuesday 13-15h
Onderwijsvorm
seminar
Leerdoelen
Insight in the linguistic features of languages of teh Berber language family. Insight in the linguistic variation inside this language family. Insught in the main analytical problems of Berber linguistics.
Literatuur
M.G. Kossmann (fc.). Berber. To appear in: Zygmunt Frajzyngier & Erin Shay, eds. The Afroasiatic Languages. Cambridge University Press, 80 p.
Toetsing
Written examination at the end of the semester
Informatie
Dr. M.G. Kossmann, m.g.kossmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl