List of available courses, BA (2020/21)


List of available courses 2020/21, Department of Linguistics

All courses are assessed by 100% coursework. Coursework assessment may take a variety of formats, including projects, term-papers, essays, portfolios, class tests, and student presentations.

All are taught as one-semester courses. Course availability is subject to staffing considerations.

Timetable for Semester 1 and Semester 2 please click on the hyperlink.

First Year Courses

• Introduction to Language – LING1000

Introductory Courses

All courses have LING1000 – Introduction to Language as their prerequisite.

• Phonetics: Describing sounds (Core) – LING2004
• Languages of the World – LING2009
• Psycholinguistics – LING2034
• Grammatical Description (Core) – LING2050
• Sociolinguistics – LING2056

Advanced Courses

• Semantics: Meaning and Grammar – LING2003
• Experimental Phonetics – LING2012
• Language Typology: The Study of Linguistic Diversity – LING2013
• Phonology: An Introduction to the Study of Sound Systems – LING2027
• Morphological Theory – LING2030
• Child Language – LING2036
• Languages in Contact – LING2040
• Languages and Cognition – LING2048
• Reading Development and Reading Disorders – LING2055
• Topics in Cantonese Linguistics – LING2058
• Linguistics Fieldwork – LING2061
• Variation Analysis – LING2066
• Natural Language Processing – LING2067
• Introductory statistics for the humanities – LING2071
• Advanced topics in syntax – LING2073
• Introduction to second language research – LING2074
• Issues in language documentation – LING2075

Capstone Courses

• Extended Essay – LING3002
• Linguistics Field Trip – LING3003
• Laboratory Linguistics – LING3006
• Seminar in Psycholinguistics – LING3007

Courses not on offer this year

• Language structure for Language Learning – LING1004
• Lexical-functional Grammar – LING2018
• Pragmatics – LING2022
• Discourse Analysis – LING2023
• Syntactic Theory – LING2032
• Bilingualism – LING2037
• Optimality theory – LING2047
• Language and the brain – LING2053
• Writing Systems – LING2059
• Languages of China – LING2060
• Experimental Syntax – LING2062
• Language in Africa – LING2064
• Endangered Languages: Issues and Methods – LING2065
• Computational Approaches to Language – LNIG2068
• Origins of Language – LING2069
• Historical Linguistics: Languages, Genes and Human Migrations – LING2070
• Advanced Statistics for the Humanities – LING2072
• Senior seminar – LING3004
• Advanced Topics in Reading, Language and Cognition – LING3005