LING 453 - World Languages

LING 453 Typology Quizzes (8)

This course includes 8 post-chapter quizzes, which will be given after the completion of each module/week. They are designed to assess the student’s understanding of typological characteristics of world languages. Each quiz will be open-book/open-notes, contain multiple-choice, true/false, matching, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer questions, and have a 30-minute time limit.

LING 453 World Languages Tests (5)

This course includes 5 unit tests based on the text, An Introduction to the Languages of the World. Tests will be given on the various language families of the world, where they are spoken, their general linguistic features, and other relevant facts. Each test will be open-book/open-notes, contain multiple-choice, true/false, matching, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer questions, and have a 1-hour time limit.

LING 453 Grammar Sketch

The student will develop a description of a language according to a given rubric to include the following aspects:

• A description and illustration of the major syntactic and morphological features of the language

• An account of the grammatical features of the languages in terms of typology

• An account of the unique or different features of the language relative to other languages

The student will write a 7–10-page grammar sketch of a language in current APA format. The paper must include at least 5 references in addition to the course books. A list of languages for the grammar sketch will be provided.

LING 453 World Languages Final Exam

The World Languages Final Exam will be cumulative, covering the Reading & Study material for all modules/weeks from the textbook An Introduction to the Languages of the World. The exam will be open-book/open-notes, contain multiple-choice, true/false, and short answer questions, and have a time limit of 1 hour and 30 minutes.