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November 25, 2022
Duration:
Unlimited Duration
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This course includes:
Unlimited Duration
Badge on Completion
Certificate of completion
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Description
This course explores languages that have been deliberately constructed, including Esperanto, Klingon, and Tolkien’s Elvish
Students construct their own languages while considering the basic linguistic characteristics of various languages of the world. Through regular assignments, students describe the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and writing system of their constructed language. The final assignment is a grammatical description of the new language.
Course Curriculum
- Phonetics 1 Unlimited
- Phonetics 2 Unlimited
- Phonology 1 Unlimited
- Phonology 2 Unlimited
- Klingon, Quenya, Parseltongue, etc. Unlimited
- Morphology Unlimited
- Case Unlimited
- Transitivity Unlimited
- Agreement Unlimited
- Word Order 1 Unlimited
- Embedded Clauses Unlimited
- Questions Unlimited
- Word Order 2 Unlimited
- Finishing Up Syntax Unlimited
- Discourse Particles Unlimited
- Kinship Terminology Unlimited
- Numbers and Colors Unlimited
- Writing Systems Unlimited
- Historical Linguistics Unlimited
- Hesitation Noises, Language Games, Honorifics, etc. Unlimited
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