Welcome new and returning students!
Great that you decided to study linguistics with us! I’m looking forward to meeting you online next week and, hopefully, in person next year. Here’s some information on the module, my seminars and the the first sessions.
Course description
This module offers an introduction to the basic concepts and methods of linguistics on various levels of analysis (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and text linguistics). In the end, you will be able to understand the language of linguistics and pursue further studies in the discipline.
Syllabus, Bibliography, Homework
I have prepared a few documents for you and exported them to a folder in my Dropbox. At the moment, this folder contains:
- A document with some general information on the course, the expectable workload, etc.
- The course syllabus. The syllabus tells you what we are planning to do each week and what you should do to prepare for each session. There will be texts to read and videos to watch.
- The course bibliography. The bibliography explains the text citations used on the syllabus (and in the videos) and contains all necessary bibliographical information on the texts you are to read.
I will also add
- Documents for each week’s homework tasks.
Links to the videos for each week will follow. Here’s a short (<2min) video that shows you how to find the main textbook. (I’ve set the video to “public” since some of you were apparently unable to watch it. You’ll need to allow your browser to accept cookies from https://fu-berlin.eu.vbrickrev.com.)
Live sessions
My seminars will take place via WebEx at their allotted times. My personal “room” can be found at https://fu-berlin.webex.com/meet/kirsten.middeke. If you go there at the right time, you sould automatically enter our meeting once I start it. But there are also direct links for each seminar:
General information on Webex and how to use it can be found here: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/webappng/sites/fu-berlin/dashboard?siteurl=fu-berlin. Please send me an e-mail should you experience any technical problems.
See you all next week!
Kirsten