Dutch linguistics: Syntactic, semantic and functional aspects of word order

Teacher(s)

Degand Elisabeth;

Language

Dutch

Prerequisites

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Main themes

Functional analysis of word order in Dutch, with special focus on the left and right periphery of the utterance.
Overview of methods of analysis for the identification of the periphery in natural data
Confrontation of theories and methods developed in the scientific literature to account for the role and function of the periphery.
 

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	Students will be able to give an account of the principles that govern word order in Dutch, more specifically their functional and communicative aspects, in order to develop the students¿ profound grammatical knowledge. Students will be able to analyse empirical data according to several theoretical frameworks. Students will be able to confront and evaluate hypotheses, methods and theorietical frameworks applied to different aspects of word order in Dutch.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Content

Form and function of the left and right periphery in the Dutch sentence/utterance.
Introduction : Overview of definition and treatment of the peripheries in traditional Dutch grammars. Portfolio of specific linguistic studies of form and function of LP and RP in different theoretical frameworks.

 

Teaching methods

Portfolio discussion in flipped classroom configuration

Evaluation methods

Oral exam (theory and applications); students will be invited to comment on the methods, hypotheses, theoretical frameworks and results presented in the portfolio of scientific articles. In addition, they will present the results of their analysis of empirical data (identification of left and right periphery).

Other information

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Online resources

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Bibliography

Firbas, J., 1992, Functional sentence perspective in written and spoken communication. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
Beeching, Kate, and Ulrich Detges (eds). 2014. Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery: Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change. Brill: Leiden.
Tijdschrift : Nederlandse Taalkunde Volume 15, Number 3, Januari 2010 : Themanummer over de linkerperiferie
Tijdschrift : Nederlandse Taalkunde Volume 16, Number 3, December 2011 : Themanummer over de rechterperiferie
 

Faculty or entity

LMOD