The third university established in Victoria, La Trobe University has a diverse community of more than 38,000 students and staff. Its commitment to excellence in teaching and research prepares students to make a bold and positive impact in today's global community. La Trobe provides Open Universities Australia with its core tenets, entrepreneurship and sustainability.
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed LIN3SYN (Syntax: The Relationship Between Meaning and Structure) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
The world's extraordinary linguistic diversity is under threat, and the sustainability of the many smaller languages of the world is an urgent issue. In this subject we examine the diversity of human language and the extent of diversity in syntactic structures. Deeper knowledge of the complex interactions expressed by linguistic diversity will assist you to understand the challenges facing the sustainability of our existing linguistic diversity. You will learn the skills needed to describe the syntactic structures of languages and thus help contribute to sustaining linguistic diversity.