- Reflect on the properties of languages and explore the relationships between language, cognition, society and culture, based on the knowledge acquired in the Portuguese linguistics CUs;
- Familiarize students with the theoretical, conceptual and methodological tools used to classify the world's languages according to shared grammatical features
- Observe, describe and compare linguistic samples from a wide range of languages
- Use typological databases;
- Reflect on linguistic universals and discuss the universal grammar hypothesis;
- Know and apply the methodology of language comparison and reconstruction;
- Acquire knowledge about principles and methods of contrastive language analysis;
- Develop case studies in linguistic typology and contrastive linguistics (Portuguese and other languages).
General Comparative Linguistics
5 ECTS / Semestre / Português
