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3.00 Credits
PQ: LING 20100/30100. This course is an introduction to natural language semantics and to formal, model-theoretic approaches to aspects of truth-conditional meaning. Topics include quantification, modality, polarity, tense and aspect, event structure, and the semantics of noun phrases. Tools from classical logic (propositional and predicate logic; type theory) are covered. Further topics include non Ctruth-conditional aspects of meaning, such as presupposition and implicature. Winter.
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PQ: LING 22050/32050. This course is a continuation of LING 22050/32050 with emphasis on the interfaces with syntax and pragmatics. Topics include temporal and aspectual operators in an event semantics with times, as well as type-shifting, partitivity, and crosslinguistic variation in NP-quantification. We also discuss negative polarity, scalarity, and free choice phenomena with modality, as well as scope, indefinites, choice functions, and the semantics of questions. Spring.
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This course introduces students to modern Georgian grammar, primarily through reading exercises that relate to Georgian historical, social, and literary traditions. Supplemental activities that encourage writing, speaking, and listening skills are also included. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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This course reviews and reinforces the grammar principles presented in Elementary Georgian through the reading and analysis of selected texts written by influential Georgian authors and poets. Additional class exercises are provided to strengthen listening and speaking skills. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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This course emphasizes advanced language skills and vocabulary building through independent reading and writing projects, as well as class exercises involving media (e.g., newspaper and magazine articles, videoclips, radio programs, movies, sound recordings, online materials). Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: LGLN 20600 or equivalent. Although this course assumes that students have full mastery of the grammatical and lexical content at the intermediate level, there is a shift from a reliance on the cognitive approach to an emphasis on the expansion of various grammatical and vocabulary-related subjects. After being introduced to sophisticated and more complex syntactic constructions, students learn how to transform simple sentences into more complicated ones. The exercises address the creative efforts of students, and the reading segments are longer and more challenging in both style and content. The language of the texts reflects the literary written medium rather than the more informal spoken style, which often dominates the introductory and intermediate texts. A. Finkelstein. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a nontechnical general survey of human languages, examining their diversity and uniformity across space and time. Major topics include language families and historical relationships, linguistic typology and language universals, language and population distribution, sprachbund effects, sound and structural features of the world's languages, and writing systems. Winter.
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This course is designed to help students acquire communicative competence in Swahili and a basic understanding of its structures. Through a variety of exercises, students develop both oral and writing skills. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course familiarizes students with the linguistic histories and structures that have served as bases for the formation of modern Balkan ethnic identities and that are being manipulated to shape current and future events. This course is informed by the instructor's thirty years of linguistic research in the Balkans, as well as experience as an adviser for the United Nations Protection Forces in Former Yugoslavia and as a consultant to the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Crisis Group, and other organizations. Course content may vary in response to current events. V. Friedman. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
The goal of this sequence is to develop proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking for use in everyday communication. These courses introduce the main features of Yiddish culture through websites, songs, films, and folklore. J. Schwarz. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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