3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1023794ANR for all students in the 1st semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.
In this course, students are given the elementary foundation for the later theoretical and language-specific lectures in linguistics. After an introduction to what language and linguistics are all about, we will briefly review the development of linguistic thought and the evolution of the discipline. In four intensive block sessions, the principles of phonology and phonetics, semantics and pragmatics, morphology and, finally, syntax, will then be discussed.
This course is taught by a team of professors, each focussing on their area of linguistic expertise.
This course is taught in English; examples may be given from all languages offered in the Linguistcs and Literary Studies programme.
Digital course material will be made available via the digital learning platform.
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The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Information for 2023/2024:
The written examination is a multiple choice exam. 'Guessing correction' or 'Higher threshold' are NOT applied.
A non-compulsory trial examination is organised for this course during the semester. Those who pass the trial exam do no longer have to participate in the final exam, the grade of the trial examaniation will then be transfered to the final exam. Note that it is not possible to organise a second date for the trail exam, no matter what the resaon for a student's absence is.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Work and Organisational Psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Clinical psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-English
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-German
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-French
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-Spanish
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: English-German
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: English-French
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: English-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: English-Spanish
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: German-French
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: German-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: German-Spanish
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: French-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: French-Spanish
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Italian-Spanish