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Instructors: Mateusz Michal Ziolkowski
Event type:
Practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
06.084.0506
Credits:
3,0
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
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Requirements / organisational issues:
No prior knowledge in the field of linguistics is necessary. In order to pass the class, students will have to prepare for lessons by either reading German or English language texts or doing homework to present in the following lesson. A short written examat the end of the semester will test the acquired knowledge.
Contents:
Parts of speech or word classes are the basis of traditional grammar and can be found in almost every attempt to describe language. Often assumed to be a universal property of languages, parts of speech therefore also influence translation as the ways certain languages handle certain word classes differ.
During the course the origin and the characteristics of parts of speech will be discussed and during the exercises students will train to be able to identify word classes and justify their classification. Furthermore problems that arise in any word class system will be raised by looking at various languages from all over the world.
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