LING4120 – Linguistics Specialization on Meaning

The academic theme of this course changes from semester to semester, but all specializations provide students with deeper knowledge of the fundamentals of recent linguistic research. This may for example involve various aspects of leading theories in cognitive grammar, construction grammar, generative grammar, and sometimes more or less specialized linguistic research fields (which can be studied under several theoretical approaches), such as argument structure, diachronic linguistics, grammaticalization, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, conversation analysis, language acquisition, linguistic typology, sociolinguistics or bilingualism.

• Course description Autumn 2026: Semantic theory at the syntax-semantics interface
• Course description Autumn 2025: Semantic theory at the syntax-semantics interface
• Course description Autumn 2024: Semantic theory at the syntax-semantics interface
• Course description Autumn 2023: Semantic theory at the syntax-semantics interface
• Course description Autumn 2022: Semantic theory at the syntax-semantics interface
• Course description Autumn 2021: Semantic theory at the syntax-semantics interface
• Course description Autumn 2020: Semantic theory at the syntax-semantics interface
• Course description Autumn 2019:Semantic theory at the syntax-semantics interface
• Course description Autumn 2018:Semantic theory at the syntax-semantics interface
• Course description Autumn 2017: Semantic theory at the syntax-semantics interface
• Course description Autumn 2016: Grammatiske relasjoner i lingvistisk teori
• Course description Autumn 2015: Kunsten å skrive en grammatikk
• Course description Autumn 2014: Leksikalsk-funksjonell grammatikk
• Course description Autumn 2013: Dixon`s Basic Linguistic Theory
• Course description Autumn 2013:Psykolingvistikk - det mentale leksikon
• Course description Autumn 2011:Psykolingvistikk - det mentale leksikon
• Course description Spring 2011:Diakron og komparativ lingvistikk
• Course description Autumn 2010:Kognitiv lingvistikk

To enroll in this course, you must be a student in one of the following master's programs:

• Linguistics
• Multilingualism
• European Languages

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

Students enrolled in other Master`s Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

The minimum number of attendants for the course is 5.

Classes are given throughout the semester, 10 double lectures in total.

Each student has to write an assignment given by the lecturer during the course of the seminar. The assignment must be approved by the lecturer before the student can take the final exam.

Approved mandatory activities are valid for the next two times the course is offered.

A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.