Hiroshima University Syllabus

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Japanese
Academic Year 2024Year School/Graduate School Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Master's Course) Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Humanities Program
Lecture Code WMBT2502 Subject Classification Specialized Education
Subject Name 一般言語学特別演習A
Subject Name
(Katakana)
イッパンゲンゴガクトクベツエンシュウA
Subject Name in
English
Special Seminar on General Linguistics A
Instructor UENO TAKAHUMI
Instructor
(Katakana)
ウエノ タカフミ
Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 1st-Year,  Second Semester,  Second Semester
Days, Periods, and Classrooms (2nd) Weds3-4:Faculty Office
Lesson Style Lecture/Seminar Lesson Style
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Seminar  
Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week   Language of Instruction B : Japanese/English
Course Level 6 : Graduate Advanced
Course Area(Area) 23 : Arts and Humanities
Course Area(Discipline) 06 : Linguistics
Eligible Students
Keywords Contrastive Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Individual Languages, Theoretical Linguistics 
Special Subject for Teacher Education   Special Subject  
Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
 
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
 
Class Objectives
/Class Outline
Contrastive Linguistics combines the study on individual languages with general linguistics. Historical linguistics combines the synchrony about each period with the diachronic study. Both linguistics make clear some phenomena of individual languages and time changing, by comparing and examining the difference of languages and the language change.  
Class Schedule Lesson 1 Introduction
Lesson 2 Predication
Lesson 3 A Brief Historical Interlude on Internal Subject
Lesson 4 On the Nature of the RELATOR
Lesson 5 Reverse Predications as Primary Predications
Lesson 6 Small Clauses
Lesson 7 Copular Sentences
Lesson 8 Predicate Inversion as A-Movement
Lesson 9 Predicate Inversion and the Distribution of the LINKER
Lesson 10 Qualitative Binominal Noun Phrases (1)
Lesson 11 Qualitative Binominal Noun Phrases (2)
Lesson 12 Qualitative Binominal Noun Phrases (3)
Lesson 13 Qualitative Binominal Noun Phrases (4)
Lesson 14 Qualitative Binominal Noun Phrases (5)
Lesson 15 Review 
Text/Reference
Books,etc.
den Dikken, Marcel (1999) Relators and Linkers: The Syntax of Predication, Predicate Inversion, and Copulas, The MIT Press. 
PC or AV used in
Class,etc.
 
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Learning techniques to be incorporated  
Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review
You should prepare the presentation for every lesson. 
Requirements None 
Grading Method Class attitude and report 
Practical Experience  
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it  
Message  
Other   
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching. 
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