LING4170 – Linguistics Specialization on Structure and Form

The academic theme of this course changes from semester to semester, but all specializations provide students with deeper knowledge of the fundamentals of recent research on linguistic structure and form. 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, interactional linguistics, language acquisition, linguistic typology, sociolinguistics or bilingualism.

• Course description Autumn 2026: Computational Lexical Functional Grammar
• Course description Autumn 2025: Computational Lexical Functional Grammar
• Course description Autumn 2024: Recent advances in the analysis of Norwegian structure and form
• Course description Autumn 2023: Interactional Linguistics
• Course description Autumn 2022:Possessive relations in grammar
• Course description Autumn 2021:Formal language theory in linguistics
• Course description Autumn 2020:Eksperimentell fonetikk/fonologi
• Course description Autumn 2019: Kognitiv lingvistikk
• Course description Autumn 2018: Leksikalsk-funksjonell grammatikk
• Course description Autumn 2017: Språkdød og språkbevaring (Language endangerment and language preservation)
• Course description Autumn 2015: Lingvistisk typologi - utvalgte temaer
• Course description Autumn 2014:Grammatikalisering og morfosyntaktisk endring

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

• Linguistics
• Multilingualism
• Nordiske studier, studieretning norsk som andrespråk

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 complete a compulsory assignment given by the teacher during the course of the seminar. The assignment must be approved by the teacher before the student can take the final exam.

The mandatory activity is only valid for the semester in which it was approved.

A term paper or equivalent that is passed may not be resubmitted in revised form.

If you withdraw from the exam after the deadline, this will be counted as an examination attempt.