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Department of Linguistics Department of Linguistics

assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Claudia Posch assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Claudia Posch, +43 512 507 40411

604006

VO The World's Languages

VO 2

5

weekly

each semester

English

This lecture gives an overview on the languages of the world and their areal, genetic and typological classification; you will learn how to classify important languages into morphological and syntactical types because of their specific characteristics.

How to LINGUISTICALLY classify languages: morphological, syntactica and phonological characteristics; overview of the world's language phyla starting with the indoeuropean family in Europe; non-indoeuropean languages in Europe; Asian languages, languages of Africa, American languages, australasian languages

lecture with many audio- and videoexamples

multiple choice

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