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3.00 Credits
Descriptive linguistic study of language; phonemics and phonemic transcriptions; morphemics; word classes; syntactic structures and sentence patterns, dialects, intonations.
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Typology in linguistics is the study of the similarities and differences in human languages. This couse examines the major grammatical categories and constructions found in the world's languages. Using a cross-linguistic comparison we seek to understand absolute linguistic universals (things all languages have), universal tendencies (things that most languages share), and implicational universals (if a language has X, then it has Y). This type of study allows us to better understand the human mind and how it processes language, what is possible and impossible in human language, and how and if languages are genetically related.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the basic concepts in articulatory phonetics, including the physiology of articulation, phonetic characterization and transcription of individual speech sounds, stress at the word and sentence level, intonation patterns, rhythm, and tone. The course also provides an overview of principles in phonology, within various frameworks including autosegmental theory, feature geomety, lexical phonology and Optimality theory to account for cross-linguistic similarities as well as differences.
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3.00 Credits
Morphology is the study of word formation. This course examines a wide range of data from a variety of languages in order to determine how words are composed. It focuses primarily on derivational morphology (how words are composed in the lexicon) and inflectional morphology (how variation in word forms shows grammatical functions in the syntax of the language). The interaction between morphology and phonology and morphology and syntax are also examined as well as the development of morphological theory.
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3.00 Credits
Lakhota is a member of the Mississippi Valley branch of the Siouan Language family. The language is an agglutinating one with many synthetic characteristics. This course will examine the structure of the Lakhota language, focusing on the phonolgoy, morphology, and syntax of the language. This will be accomplished by reading and comparing a number of grammars and sketches as well as examining original Lakhota texts.
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3.00 Credits
Review of the problems and trends of word study in the past, especially the notions surrounding the concepts of authority and usage of language: scrutiny of the various types and sources of English vocabulary; recent linguistic insights considered in the light of their value for various kinds of handbooks.
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3.00 Credits
What is meaning? How does word meaning contribute to sentence meaning? This course explores these two fundamental questions beginning with basic assumptions about semantic compositionality and how it corresponds to syntax. The course introduces the fundamentals of logic as they apply to sematics and investigates the meanings of nouns, adjectives, and especially verbs through lexical semantics.
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3.00 Credits
Using a scientific approach, this course investigates the linguistic process of constructing formal grammars that reflect native speaker knowledge. Comparing data from a variety of languages, we look for generalizations and tendencies across languages that not only account for what speakers know but also account for how children learn language. We examine a number of topics tat are core to generative assumptions about language and language study, such as constituency, argument structure, thematic roles, adjunct and complement relations, formation of questions, and binding relations. This investigation leads us to formalizing predictions about how language is structured.
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Following the ground work established in LING 437, this course will introduce students to modern syntactic theory as practiced within the Principles and Parameters approach. An emphasis will be placed on the methodological and theoretical achievements of the Minimalist Program as developed in the past decade. Students will further examine the notions of functional and lexical projections, empty categories, feature checking operations, various kinds of movement and merge operations, and locality constraints.
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3.00 Credits
Differences between spoken and written languages; the functions of writing in a literate society; writing systems with particular reference to English orthography; current psycholinguistic research on the acquisition of written language skill; pedagogical implications of linguistic views on literacy.
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