Admission requirements
Students in the Berber track of African Linguistics and in the Research master Area Studies: Asia and the Middle East: Middle Eastern Studies are requested to supplement the course with a 5 ects assigment (MABER2).
Description
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.
Course objectives
Insight in the linguistic features of languages of teh Berber language family.
Insight in the linguistic variation inside this language family.
Insight in the main analytical problems of Berber linguistics.
Timetable
First semster, tuesday 13-15h. Timetables
Mode of instruction
seminar
Assessment method
Written examination at the end of the semester
Blackboard
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Reading list
M.G. Kossmann (fc.). Berber. To appear in: Zygmunt Frajzyngier & Erin Shay, eds. The Afroasiatic Languages. Cambridge University Press, 80 p.
Registration
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