https://studiegids.vu.nl/en/courses/2024-2025/L_TAMATWS008To familiarise the student with major works and handbooks of descriptive and typological linguistics.Guided reading of major works and handbooks in the fields of descriptive and typological linguistics.Tutorial; number of meetings per period to be decided upon by student and supervisor.Essay and/or assignments and/or portfolio, to be decided upon by student and supervisor.R.M.W. Dixon. Basic Linguistic Theory. Volumes 1-3. Oxford University Press 2010.Master's students in Linguistics (specialisation Language Description and Comparative Linguistics), Research Master's students in Humanities (specialisation Linguistics).This option is only available if elective modules chosen by students of the master Linguistics are cancelled or co-incide with modules of the obligatory program.