Bachelor of Arts (BA) - The University of Hong Kong

247LING2003.Semantics: meaning and grammar (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)This course focuses on structural and cognitive aspects of meaning which are relevant to the descriptionand theory of grammar. Examples will be drawn from Cantonese, Mandarin and English together withsome other European and Asian languages.Assessment: 100% coursework.LING2004.Phonetics: describing sounds (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)The focus will be on articulatory phonetics; the speech mechanism; the description and classification ofsounds of languages; sounds in context; prosodic features; tone and intonation; and practical work.Assessment: 100% coursework.LING2008.Special topic in linguistics I (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)Specialised courses offered by staff members.Assessment: 100% coursework.LING2009.Languages of the world (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)This survey of the world's languages covers how languages are classified into families and types as wellas issues of linguistic diversity and endangered languages. The course involves regular practical work.The course satisfies the prerequisite for the advanced course, Language typology, and also providesuseful background for all courses in linguistics.Assessment: 100% coursework.LING2010. Language and dialect (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)In this course you will learn about the difference between a standard language and a dialect, withparticular reference to Modern Chinese and British English.We shall study the writing systems of Modern Chinese and British English, and compare them withalternative systems which are used for Chinese and English dialects.You will learn to distinguish between 'Chinese' and 'Putonghua', between 'Cantonese' ('Guangdong speech' ( and 'Yue dialects' ( and between wenyan ( and baihua( similar phenomena in British English will also be discussed.Assessment: 100% coursework.白 文 粵 廣 廣), 話 州), 話 東), 言 方言 )話 );