141066 VO Syntactic Features in African Languages (2023W)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie

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Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Georg Ziegelmeyer

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Start: 06.10.2023

Friday 06.10. 11:00 - 13:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
Friday 13.10. 11:00 - 13:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
Friday 20.10. 11:00 - 13:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
Friday 27.10. 11:00 - 13:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
Friday 03.11. 11:00 - 13:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
Friday 10.11. 11:00 - 13:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
Friday 17.11. 11:00 - 13:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
Friday 24.11. 11:00 - 13:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
Friday 01.12. 11:00 - 13:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
Friday 15.12. 11:00 - 13:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
Friday 12.01. 11:00 - 13:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06
Friday 19.01. 11:00 - 13:00 Inst. f. Afrikawissenschaften, Seminarraum 2 UniCampus Hof 5 2M-O1-06

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Goals: Acquisition of basic concepts of syntax and their application to African languages.

Contents: This course offers an overview of selected syntactic features and structures of African languages. Among other things, the following areas will be discussed:
• Parts of speech (e.g., ideophones, adjectives in African languages)
• Cases in African languages (e.g., "marked-nominative systems")
• Serial verb constructions
• Tense Aspect Mode (TAM) in African languages
• Strategies of negation
• Focus constructions in African languages
• Interrogative sentences in African languages
• Properties of complex sentence constructions (e.g., coordination, relative clauses, complement clauses)

Methods: Overview lecture with examples from different African languages.

Assessment and permitted materials

Performance assessment: Written exam at the end of the semester.

Allowed resources: Course materials.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Minimum requirements: Participation in the written exam.

Assessment scale: 100% written exam.

Examination topics

Exam material: The topics covered during the semester.

Reading list

References: Zeller, Jochen, 'Syntax', in Rainer Vossen, and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (eds), The Oxford Handbook of African Languages, Oxford Handbooks (2020; online edition, Oxford Academic, 7 May 2020), https:// doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199609895.013.67

Association in the course directory

ÜAS 1
ÜAS 2

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