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Topics in Chinese Syntax and Semantics

Course
2013-2014

Admission requirements

Students have to have basic knowledge of syntactic theory. Previous knowledge of Chinese is not required.

Description

In this course, we discuss issues in Chinese syntax, especially the structure of noun phrases (including discussions of classifiers) and the structure of the verb phrase. Other issues that will be discussed are: tense and aspect, quantifiers, questions, comparatives and relative clauses. We will draw data from Mandarin and Cantonese, and sometimes other dialects.

Course objectives

  1. Students are familiarized with issues in Chinese syntax and semantics.
    1. Students will understand analyses of particular issues.
    2. Students will be able to formulate questions and hypotheses based on current analyses.
    3. Students’ research skills will be further developed: they learn to report their findings both in writing and orally, for general as well as scholarly audiences.

Timetable

The timetable will be available by June 1st on the website.

Mode of instruction

Seminar

Course Load

  • time spent on attending lectures and seminars: 26 hours

  • time for studying the compulsory literature: 104 hours

  • time for assignments: 60 hours

  • time for the term paper: 90 hours

Assessment Method

  • Several written and oral assignments 40%

  • Term paper 60%

Blackboard

This course is supported by Blackboard.

Reading list

To be made available on Blackboard.

Registration

Students should register through uSis. If you have any questions, please contact the departmental office, tel. 071 5272144 or mail: ma-linguistics@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs

Registration Studeren à la carte via: www.hum.leidenuniv.nl/onderwijs/alacarte
Registration Contractonderwijs via: http://www.hum.leidenuniv.nl/onderwijs/contractonderwijs/

Contact

MA Linguistics departmental office, P.N. van Eyckhof 4, room 102C. Tel. 071 5272144; mail:ma-linguistics@hum.leidenuniv.nl