The goal of this course is to make students acquainted with the most important approaches and concepts in linguistics and thus prepare them for the MA seminar in Slavic linguistics. The methodological background of this course is cognitive, cross-cultural, and contrastive approach. In addition to elaborating on theoretical concepts, students are required to engage in group projects, which are aimed at compiling electronic lists and databases, typically Polish-SerboCroatian, which are used in further research on MA seminar in Slavic linguistics. This course should give an overview of formal and applied approaches in linguistics and show the possibilities of employing these approaches in Slavic studies.
Special emphasis is put on computational lexicography and computational grammar.
This two-year seminar helps students to select topics, conduct research, and render their MA thesis. Students are introduced to fundamental methodological frames and techniques of linguistic investigations. They also get acquainted with the relevant linguistic approaches. The seminar leads toward the defense of one's MA thesis. The lecture introduces fundamental concepts of cognitive linguistics as presented in the works of Langacker and Lakoff.