LINGH 113a - Introduction to Syntax

Institution:

Haverford College

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Description:

HU (or Swarthmore LING 050) S.Huang This course will provide an introduction to the investigation of sentence structures in human language. Students will be led to discover for themselves the insights into this field that linguists have gained in the past 40 years. The class will develop an increasingly complex theory starting with some basic assumptions about language and then seeing where the assumptions lead. In the process, students will not only come to a clearer understanding of how grammar works, they will also develop and refine skills of analysis, writing, and argumentation. We will focus mainly on English, since everybody in class speaks it. Occasionally, we will look at other languages to get a sense of the ways in which human languages are similar to each other and how they are different.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.haverford.edu

Phone Number:

(610) 896-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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