Credit work

In this program, students must pass a minimum of 44 credits. These should be distributed according to the following principles:

a. A minimum of 22 basic credits that should include:

  • The 5 compulsory credits of the course Language and Linguistic Analysis Fundamentals.
  • The 4 compulsory credits of the Third Cycle Seminar.

b.A minimum of 6 methodological credits that should include:

  • The 3 compulsory credits of the course Tools and Resources for Linguistic Work.
  • The 3 compulsory credits of the course Research Methodology applied to language.

c.A minimum of 12 credits during their research period, in which students prepare two research papers:

  • 1. A research work (3 credits).
  • 2. A final research paper or dissertation project (9 credits)

Students may select the rest of subjects to comply with the minimum 44 credits needed from the basic, methodological and related credits offered in this and in other programs, but under the following principles: a maximum of 6 credits in related subjects and 5 credits in subjects not included in the program.

Academic Structure

Academic Period

Year 1  (2004-2005)

Name of the Course

Credits

Character

Type

Faculty

Language and Linguistic Analysis Fundamentals

5

Comp.

Fundamental

Clua, DeCesaris, Lorente

Third Cycle Seminar

4

Comp.

Fundamental

Estopà, Martí

Tools and Resources for Linguistic Work

3

Comp.

Methodological

Rovira, de Yzaguirre

Research Methodology applied to language

3

Comp.

Methodological

Chabás, Turell

Analysis and Applications of Variation

4

Opt.

Fundamental

Castellà, Clua, de Yzaguirre, Freixa, Turell

Natural Language Processing

4

Opt.

Fundamental

Bel, de Yzaguirre, Wanner

Dictionary Analysis and Lexicographic Projects

4

Opt.

Fundamental

Battaner, DeCesaris, Gelpí

General Terminology

4

Opt.

Fundamental

Cabré, Lorente, Martí

Semantics and Pragmatics

4

Opt.

Fundamental

Bel, Bonilla, González, Ribas

Documentation and Knowledge Management

4

Opt.

Fundamental

Codina, Rovira

Multidisciplinary Studies of Discourse

4

Opt.

Fundamental

Castellà, González, Ribas, Van Dijk

Year 2  (2005-2006)

Name of the Course

Credits

Character

Type

Faculty

Linguistic Fundamentals

5

Comp.

Fundamental

Clua, DeCesaris, Lorente

Third Cycle Seminar

4

Comp.

Fundamental

Estopà, Martí

Research Methodology applied language

3

Comp.

Methodological

Chabás, Turell

Tools and Resources for Linguistic Work

3

Comp.

Methodological

Rovira, de Yzaguirre

Linguistics and Variation

4

Opt.

Fundamental

Clua, González, Freixa, Turell

Applications to the Automatic Treatment of Language

4

Opt.

Fundamental

Bel, de Yzaguirre, Wanner

Meta-lexicography

4

Opt.

Fundamental

Battaner, DeCesaris, Gelpí

Applied Terminology

4

Opt.

Fundamental

Estopà, Lorente

Specialized Discourse: Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects

4

Opt.

Fundamental

Cabré, Martí, Van Dijk

Lexicon and Syntax

4

Opt.

Fundamental

Cabré, Lorente,

Key : Comp. = compulsory / Opt. = optional

Research Period

The 12 research credits are distributed in a 3-credit  tutored research paper and a 9-credit dissertation project on one of the following research domains and topics:

  • General and specialised discourse
  • Lexicon and terminology
  • Lexicography
  • Linguistic engineering and computational linguistics
  • Language variation and change
  • Scientific information and knowledge management

Supervised Research Papers (a total of 12 credits )

Faculty

Supervised Research Papers:  General and specialised discourse

Cabré, González, Martí, Ribas, Van Dijk

Supervised Research Papers:  Lexicon and terminology

Cabré, Codina, Estopà, Gelpí, Lorente, Martí, Ribas

Supervised Research Papers:  Lexicography

Battaner, DeCesaris, Gelpí

Supervised Research Papers:  Linguistic engineering and computational linguistics

Bel, de Yzaguirre, Rovira, Wanner,

Codina, Rovira

Supervised Research Papers:  Language variation and change

Castellà, Clua, Freixa, Turell

Supervised Research Papers:  Scientific information and knowledge management

Codina, Rovira

Final Research Project

Faculty from the research domains specified above

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course Description. Year 1 (2004-2005)

Language and Linguistic Analysis Fundamentals

  • 6 credits
  • fundamental
  • compulsory

Objectives

The main objectives of this course-with a propaedeutic character-are to expose the theoretical and methodological fundamentals of the components of linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics), the acquisition of a solid linguistic analysis methodology, and the introduction of different contemporary linguistic models.

Bibliography

  • CRUSE, D. A. (2000) Meaning in language. An introduction to semantics and pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • DURAND, J. (1990) Fundamentos de fonología generativa y no-lineal. Barcelona: Teide, 1992
  • JACKENDOFF, R. (1997) The Architecture of the Language Faculty. Cambridge (Mass.): The MIT Press.
  • RADFORD, A. et al. (1999) Introducción a la lingüística. Madrid: Cambridge University Press, 2000
  • SELLS, P. (1985) Teorías sintácticas actuales. Barcelona: Teide, 1989.
  • SPENCER, A. (1991) Morphological Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.

Tools and Resources for Linguistic Work

  • 3 credits
  • methodological
  • compulsory

Objectives

This subject aims to present and use, on the one hand, specific tools such as corpus consultation programs, terminological database or documentary managers, different kinds of tagging or labeling tools and lexicometrical applications, and, on the other hand, all the computer resources that could be valuable for linguistic research.

Bibliography

  • BUTLER, C. (ed.) (1992) Computer and written texts. Londres: Blackwell.
  • HABERT, B. et al. Les linguistiques de corpus. Paris: Armand Colin
  • KRISHNAMURTHY, R. (1997) Keeping Good Company: Collocation, Corpus, and Dictionaries. IULA, Cicle de conferències 95-96. Barcelona: IULA
  • SINCLAIR, J. (1991) Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford: OUP.

Research Methodology Applied to Language

  • 3 credits
  • methodological
  • compulsory

Objectives

This subject has three basic objectives. Firstly, to familiarize students with epistemological issues of science and research in order to increase knowledge. The historic clarification of scientific development will be an important ingredient of this first objective. The second objective will be to reflect upon the methods applied to language research: explicative theories, problems, data collection, descriptions and experiments, qualitative and quantitative methods for data analysis, applications. The third objective will be to approach the research process from three fundamental viewpoints: a) the decision level; that is, in terms of needs and objectives, hypotheses, internal and external validity; b) the realization level, which involves experimental design, and c) the execution level, that is, the methods and techniques used to collect data and their treatment.

Bibliography

  • ALCARAZ, E. (1990) Tres paradigmas de la investigación lingüística. Alcoi: Ed. Marfil.
  • BUNGE, M. (1989 2a) trad. cast. La investigación científica, su estrategia y su filosofía Barcelona: Ariel.
  • HATCH, E.; H. FARHADY (1982) Research Design and Statistics for Applied Linguistics. Cambridge, (Mass.): Newsbury House.
  • LAKATOS, I. (1978) trad. Cast. La metodología de los programas de investigación científica. Madrid: Alianza ed. 1983.
  • LÓPEZ MORALES, H. (1994) Métodos de investigación lingüística. Salamanca, De: Colegio de España.
  • PERCIVAL, W.K. (1976) "The applicability of Kuhn's paradigms to the history of linguistics", Language (52/2), p. 285-294.
  • SILVERMAN, D. (2000) Doing qualitative research. A practical handbook. London Sage.

General Seminar

  • 4 credits
  • fundamental
  • obligatory

Objectives

This seminar is organised around the theoretical and methodological aspects involved in research. Its basic aim is to achieve a more interdisciplinary research environment among all the IULA's research domains.

The seminar's design will be as follows:

  • 3 introductory research sessions on information retrival, statistics and research methodology.
  • Sessions devoted to research project presentation by the existing IULA research groups.
  • Sessions devoted to the presentation of Final Research Projects or Ph.D. in progress.
  • Sessions devoted to theoretical and methodological discussion on published articles by IULA researchers.
  • Sessions offered by visiting researchers.

Multidisciplinary Studies of the Discourse

  • 4 credits
  • fundamental
  • optional
  • Domain: General and Specialized Discourse

Multidisciplinary Studies of Discourse

Objectives

One of the most significant developments in the study of discourse in recent years is its increasing multidisciplinary nature. This subject studies this multidisciplinary character with an examination of some of the relations between the structure and the strategies of the discourse, on the one side, and the structures and the cognitive and social processes, on the other.

Bibliography

  • SANDERS, T. (1997) "Semantic and Pragmatic Sources of Coherence: On the Categorization of Coherence Relations in Context." In Spooren, W. And Risselada, R. (eds.): Discourse Processes, Volume 24. Greenwich: Connecticut. Ablex Publishing Corporation, p. 119-147.
  • van DIJK, T. (ed.) (2000) Estudios del discurso. 2 vols. Barcelona, Gedisa.
  • van DIJK, T. (1999) Ideología. Barcelona, Gedisa.
  • WODAK, R. & MEYER, M. (eds.) (2001) Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis. London, Sage.

Analysis and Applications of Variation

  • 4 credits
  • fundamental
  • optional

Domain: Linguistic Variation

Objectives:

This subject considers a critical (re)analysis of linguistic descriptions from a variation-oriented perspective. A second objective is to illustrate this variation-oriented perspective in different application domains: the creation of grammars and descriptive dictionaries, diachronic analysis and dialectology, standardization and normative prescription, translation, forensic linguistics, orthologic diagnostic techniques and orthological formation of locution and oral correctors, linguistic localization and globalization, preparation of didactic materials, analysis of the speech community.

Bibliography

  • BIBER, D., S. CONRAD, I R. REPPEN (1998). Corpus linguistics. Investigating
  • language structure and use. Cambridge University Press.
  • BJARKMAN, P.C. i V. RASKIN (eds.) (1986) The real-world linguist. Ablex: Norwood.
  • DI PETRO, R. J. (ed.) (1982) Linguistics and the professions, Ablex: Norwood.
  • GIBBONS, J. (ed.) (1994) Language and the law, Longman: Londres.
  • SOLA, J. (1990) Lingüística i normativa, Empúries: Barcelona.
  • TURELL, M. T. Multilingualism in Spain. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

General Terminology: Specialized Knowledge and Language

  • 4 credits
  • fundamental
  • optional
  • Domain: Lexicon and Terminology

Objectives

This subject will introduce students into terminology as an interdisciplinary field that includes knowledge, language, and communication. Its fundamentals, its evolution, and its applications will be discussed in the framework of a multi-modular theory, which includes epistemology, language theory, and discourse theory.

Bibliography

  • CABRÉ, M. T. (1999) Terminology: theory, methods and applications. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • CABRÉ, M. T.; FELIU, J. (2001) La terminología científico-técnica: reconocimiento, análisis y extracción de información formal y semántica. Barcelona: IULA.
  • SAGER, J-C (1990) A practical course in Terminology Processing. Amsterdam; Filadelfia: John Benjamins.
  • PEARSON, J. (1998) Terms in Context. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • REY, A. (1995) Essays on Terminology. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • TEMMERMAN, R. (2000) Towards news ways of terminology description: the sociocognitive-approach. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Dictionary Analysis and Lexicographic Projects

  • 4 credits
  • fundamental
  • optional
  • Domain: Lexicography

Objectives

The objective of this subject is two fold: the practical analysis of the macro- and microstructure of dictionaries that come from different lexicographical traditions, and the study of lexicographical projects: objectives, materials, and results.

Bibliography

  • BATTENBURG, J. (1991) English monolingual learners' dictionaries: a user-oriented study. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer.
  • HAUSMANN, F. J. (1989-1991) Worterbucher. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. Nova York: Walter de Gruyter.
  • BÉJOINT, H. i P. THOIRON (1996) Les dictionnaires bilingües. Louvain-La-Neuve: Duculot.

Natural Language Processing

  • 4 credits
  • fundamental
  • optional
  • Domain: Computerized Linguistics and Linguistic Engineering

Objectives

This subject aims to introduce students into the study and the understanding of the properties of natural language and of the properties of the algorithms, methods and techniques involved in linguistic information processing. This subject will present the symbolic and quantitative techniques for morphologic, syntactic and semantic processing from a linguistic and algorithmic perspective.

Bibliography

  • ALLEN, J. (1995) Natural Language Understanding. Redwood City, Calif. (second edition):  Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company.
  • JURAFSKY, D. and MARTIN, J. (2000) Speech and Language Processing. Prentice Hall.

Semantics and Pragmatics

  • 4 credits
  • fundamental
  • optional
  • transversal

Objectives

The objective of this subject is to offer an integral view of semantics and pragmatics by analyzing the key concepts and the functioning of the models: formal semantics (sense and reference, the principle of composition), lexical semantics, conceptual semantics (prototypes, radial categories, metaphors, polysemy), Speech Act Theory, (intention, indirection), the theory of conversational implication (inferential protocols), Relevance Theory (inference, explanation, access to reference, markers or labels and relevance areas), models of discourse coherence, pragmatic structure of the text (semantic-argumentative marks or labels versus pragmatics).

Bibliography

  • BACH, E. (1990): Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics, Albany, State
  • University of New York Press.
  • CABRÉ, T. and RIGAU, G. (1987) Lexicologia i Semàntica. Barcelona. Enciclopèdia Catalana.
  • LAKOFF, G. (1987): Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, Chicago, Chicago
  • University Press.
  • SANDERS, T. (1997): "Semantic and Pragmatic Sources of Coherence: On the
  • Categorization of Coherence Relations in Context". In Spooren, W. and
  • Risselada, R. (eds.): Discourse Processes, Volume 24. Greenwich:
  • Connecticut. Ablex Publishing Corporation, pp. 119-147
  • WILSON, D. and  SPERBER, D. (1993): "Linguistic Form and Relevance", Lingua, 90, 1993, 1-26.

Documentation and Knowledge Management

  • 4 credits
  • fundamental
  • optional
  • transversal

Objectives

This subject has two general objectives: to acquire knowledge about the on-line research systems and methods: search drivers, databases, selective information diffusion services; and to acquire knowledge about how to organize navigation and access to information in digital publications related to the representation of knowledge.

Bibliography

  • ABADAL, E. (1997). Els serveis d'informació electrònica, què són i per a què serveixen. Barcelona: Edicions Universitat de Barcelona.
  • ACKERMANN, E. y HARTMAN, K. (1998). The information specialist's guide to searching and researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Wilsonville: ABF Content.
  • BASCH, R.; BATES, M. E. (2000) Researching online for dummies. Foster: IDG.
  • CABRÉ, T. (1998) "La noció de normalització terminològica per al treball documental". En: Cid, P.; Baró, J. (Eds.).Anuari SOCADI de Documentació i Informació. Barcelona: SOCADI, p. 113-120.
  • CODINA, L. (2000) "La WWW desde la perspectiva de la investigación en línea". Quark, n. 18, enero-junio p. 32-37.
  • CODINA, L. (2000) El libro digital y la WWW. Madrid: Tauro,
  • ROVIRA, C. (2001) El disseny de navegació i l'organització de continguts en l'hipertext per a l'ensenyament-aprenentatge. Barcelona (tesi doctoral).

Course Description. Year 2 (2005-2006)

Linguistics and Variation

  • 4 credits
  • fundamental
  • optional
  • Domain: Linguistic Variation

Objectives

The objectives of this subject are to present the theory of variation and to offer a general overview of the internal and external dimensions of variation in natural language. It examines variability as an inherent characteristic of language (phonological, syntactic and semantic-pragmatic variation), variation and language change, variation as an analytical method, and the sociolinguistic view of variation.

Bibliography

  • CHAMBERS, J.K. and P. TRUDGILL (1998) Dialectology (2nd. ed.), Cambridge: CUP.
  • LABOV, W. (1994) Principles of linguistic change. Internal factors. Oxford and Cambridge: Blackwell.
  • LABOV, W. (2001) Principles of linguistic change. Social factors. Oxford and Cambridge: Blackwell.
  • ROMAINE, S. (1992) Socio-historical linguistics. Cambridge: CUP.

Applied Terminology

  • 4 credits
  • fundamental
  • optional
  • Domain: Lexicon and Terminology

Objectives

This subject has three proposed objectives. The first objective is to give a panoramic view about the applications of specialized lexicons (dictionaries: specialized lexicographic typology and other applications: terminological engineering, thesaurus, terminology teaching modules). The second objective is to offer analytical criteria of specialized lexicographical works (specialized meta-lexicography and meta-terminology). The third objective is to offer a methodology for the treatment of data and the creation of specialized dictionaries, and the application of this methodology (the elaboration of terminological models).

Bibliography

  • BERGENHOLTZ, H; TARP, S. (1995) Manual of specialised lexicography: the preparation of specialised dictionaries. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • CABRÉ, M. T. y FELIU, J. (2001) La terminologia científico-técnica: reconocimiento, análisis y extracción de información formal y semántica. Barcelona: IULA.
  • SAGER, J-C (1990) A practical course in Terminology Processing. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
  • WRIGHT, S.-E.; BUDIN, G. (eds.) (1984) Handbook of Terminology Management. Volume I. Basic Aspects of Terminology Management. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Meta-lexicography

  • 4 credits
  • fundamental
  • optional
  • Domain: Lexicography

Objectives

This subject has the objectives of studying the main issues contemplated by lexicography and the solutions offered by dictionaries.

Bibliography

  • HAUSMANN, F. J. (1989-1991) Worterbucher. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. Nova York: Walter de Gruyter.
  • LARA, L.F (1997) Teoría del diccionario monolingüe. Mèxic: El Colegio de México.
  • SINCLAIR, J. (1988) Looking up. An account of the COBUILD project in lexical computing and the development of the Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary. Londres: Collins.
  • SVENSEN, B. (1993) Practical lexicography. Principles and methods of dictionary-making. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Applications to the Automatic Treatment of Language

  • 4 credits
  • fundamental
  • optional
  • Domain: Computational Linguistics and Linguistic Engineering

Objectives

To show the way how computerized treatment of language is applied with concrete goals: information management, translation and interfacing in natural language.

Bibliography

  • DALE, Robert; MOISL, H. and SOMMERS, H. (eds.): Handbook of Natural Language Processing. New York: Dekker, 2000.

Specialized Discourse: Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects

  • 4 credits
  • fundamental
  • optional
  • Domain: General and Specialized Discourse

Objectives

This subject has three proposed objectives. The first one is to present-by textual analysis-the most relevant aspects of specialized knowledge through linguistic data, to analyze its specificity in relation to general knowledge, and to examine the ways to acquire and to store both types of knowledge. The second objective is to perform the analysis of texts in conceptual structures (thematic hierarchies, thesaurus). The third objective is to present the bases of information retrieval by using these structures.

Bibliography

  • CIAPUSCIO, G. (1992) Ciencia para el lego: investigaciones sobre textos de divulgación científica. Alemanya: Universitat de Bielefeld
  • DUBOIS, D. (1993) Sémantique et cognition. Catégories, prototypes, typicalité. París: Edicions CNRS
  • SALTON, G. (1983) Introduction to modern information retrieval. Nova York: McGraw-Hill.

Lexicon and Syntax

  • 4 credits
  • fundamental
  • optional
  • transversal

Objectives

This subject aims to intensify the description, analysis and generalization of lexicological and syntactic phenomena by focusing on the issues of the interrelations between the lexicon and syntax. The description of the data will allow to highlight the methodological aspects of the representation and classification of linguistic units.

Bibliography

  • ALSINA, A. (1996) The Role of Argument Structure in Grammar. Evidence from Romance. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
  • KAY, P. (1997) Words and the grammar of context. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
  • LEVIN, B. and RAPPAPORT, M. (1995) Unaccusativity at the syntax-lexical semantics interface. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
  • SUBIRATS RÜGGEBERG, C. (2001) Introducción a la sintaxis léxica del español. Frankfurt: Vervuert.

Research

Research Domains and Groups

The research domains that have been proposed for this Ph.D. program are the following:

  • General and specialised discourse
  • Lexicon and terminology
  • Lexicography
  • Linguistic engineering and computational linguistics
  • Language variation and change
  • Scientific information and knowledge management

Students should register in one of these domains after finishing year 1 of the program. After registering, they will start their research period and work on related theoretical and methodological issues involved in the chosen domain.

Research Papers and Ph.D. Dissertations

Research papers and Ph.D. dissertations do not have to be necessarily restricted to one of the research domains open in the Ph.D. program. In every case, the decision on the topic and methodology of the research work is a shared responsibility of students and the faculty members who are responsible for each research topic involved.

Research Proficiency and Diploma of Advanced Studies

Once the students have fulfilled the course credit work and the research work period, they must make a public oral presentation before a faculty tribunal so that their knowledge acquisition and ability to carry out a research project is assessed. According to the tutors' proposal, the director of the program will determine the area of knowledge in which research proficiency will be granted to each student.  Ph.D. candidates will be guaranteed their research proficiency to obtain the official Diploma of Advanced Studies.

The research proficiency tribunal for this two year program is formed by professors: M. Teresa Turell, Ph.D. (president), Mercé Lorente, Ph.D., and Maria Bargalló, Ph.D. (URV). M. Teresa Cabré, Ph.D. (president), Paz Battaner, Ph.D., and Esther Forgas, Ph.D. (URV), will form the substitute tribunal.