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Type of course

Admission requirements

Bachelor's Degree (180 ECTS), or equivalent qualification, in a language or linguistics, or a degree combining linguistics and literature (minimum 80 ECTS in linguistics/language/literature, of which minimum 60 ECTS must be in linguistics and/or language). Applicants must have a minimum grade average comparable to a Norwegian C (2,5) in the ECTS scale.

Application code 9371 Enkeltemner på masternivå (Nordic applicants).

Course content

Objectives of the course

The following learning outcomes are expected:

Knowledge:

The student having completed the course will be familiar with:

• The relationship of syntax and the lexicon
• Phrase structure and syntactic constituency
• Structural and lexical ambiguity
• The basic architecture of syntactic theory
• The concept of syntactic movement
• The concept of parametric variation

Skills:

The student having completed the course will be able to:

• Identify phrasal constituents in sentences
• Describe parametric variation between languages
• Identify and explain lexical and structural ambiguity
• Describe syntactic phenomena in a given language with appropriate terminology
• Use syntactic tools to gain a deeper understanding of sentence structure
• Discuss issues and problems in syntactic analysis

Language of instruction and examination

Teaching methods

Lectures, exercises, seminars, project work.

Quality assurance:

All courses undergo a halfway evaluation once in a 2-year period at the master's level. The board of the programme decides which courses will be evaluated by students and teacher each year.

Information to incoming exchange students