Course Number: ML150
Course Title: Pohnpeian
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
General
1. Upon completion of this course,
students will demonstrate mastery of Pohnpeian grammar including the sound
system (phonetics), the sound pattern (phonology), word structure (morphology), sentence
structure (syntax),
and meaning (semantics).
2. Upon completion of the course, students will have full grasp of the honorific
registers and the contexts within
which they are used.Specific
Students will be able to:
1.1 Explain the Pohnpeian sound system.
1.2 Identify, verbally and in writing, all of
the 21 phonemes used in the language.
1.3 Discuss and identify the complex
affixation
of words, especially suffixes,
in the Pohnpeian Language.
1.4 Write words
using appropriate word boundaries as per the grammatical and orthographical
features of the
language.
1.5 Identify
and reproduce Pohnpeian sentence structure (typology) including the placement
of the (S)ubject,
(V)erb, and (O)bject within the sentence.
1.6 Construct
sentences, using the different verb types: transitive and intransitive (active,
resultative, neutral, and
adjectival verbs).
1.7 Construct
sentences and phrases that appropriately use of verb-noun incorporation, also
known as incorporated
objects.
1.8 Construct
sentences and phrases that appropriately use Pohnpeian demonstrative modifiers.
1.9 Construct
sentences that demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the two general
types of sentences
('verbal sentences' and
'equational sentences') in Pohnpeian.
1.10
Discriminate between verbal and equational sentences.
2.1. Speak and write using correct honorific
registers in sentences, dialogues, and other scenarios.