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  • LING 300: Tutorial in Linguistics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Santorini. Prerequisite(s): Senior status or permission of the instructor. Majors only. This tutorial allows students to deal in a concentrated manner with selected major topics in linguistics by means of extensive readings and research. Two topics are studied during the semester, exposing students to a range of sophisticated linguistic questions.
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  • LING 301: Conference

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    An independent study for majors in linguistics.
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  • LING 310: History of the English Language

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Ringe/Kroch. This course traces the linguistic history of English from its earliest reconstructable ancestor, Proto-Indo-European, to the present. We focus especiallly on significant large-scale changes, such as the restructuring of the verb system in Proto-Germanic, the intricate interaction of sound changes in the immediate prehistory of Old English, syntactic change in Middle English, and the diversification of English dialects since 1750.
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  • LING 319: Topics in Dravidian Linguistics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. We will begin with an overview of the Dravidian family as a whole (languages, speakers, history of research), then followed by a general structural description of a particular modern Dravidian language (such as Tamil or Kannada), and concluding with a focus on a number of topics of crucial interest in the field (phonological, morphological, syntactic, sociolinguistic, historical) including close reading of recent scholarship in these areas. Students will write a paper on a topic of their own theoretical interest, using data from a selected Dravidian language.
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  • LING 404: Morphological Theory

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Embick. This course will explore some issues concerning the internal structure of words. After a brief introduction to some basic terms and concepts, we will discuss the interaction of morphology with phonology. We will look both at how morphology conditions phonological rules and how phonology conditions morphology. Then we will turn to the interaction of syntax and morphology. We will look at some problems raised by inflectional morphology, clitics and compounds. The main requirement for the class will be a series of homework exercises in morphological analysis.
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  • LING 411: Old English

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Kroch. The main purpose of this course is to teach students to read Old English ("Anglo-Saxon"), chiefly but not exclusively for research in linguistics. Grammar will be heavily emphasized; there will also be lectures on the immediate prehistory of the language, since the morphology of Old English was made unusually complex by interacting sound changes. In the first eight weeks we will work through Moore and Knott's "Elements of Grammar" and learn the grammar; the remainder of the term will be devoted to reading texts.
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  • LING 440: Pidgins and Creoles

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Sankoff. The origins and development of pidgins (languages of intercommunication that have evolved for practical reasons in situations of trade, conquest, or colonization, and spoken as second or auxiliary languages) and creoles (languages with native speakers that have developed from previous pidgins); relations between creoles and other languages; implications of creole studies for general theories of language and language change.
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  • LING 450: Languages in Contact

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Sankoff. Multilingualism from a societal, individual, and linguistic point of view. The different types of contacts between populations and between individuals which give rise to multilingualism. Second-language acquisition and the problem of the "critical age." Cognitive and cultural aspects of multilingualism; applications to the teaching of languages. "Bidialectalism." Code-switching (alternation), interference and integration: the mutual influences of languages in contact. Political and social aspects of multilingualism.
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  • LING 470: Narrative Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Labov. The course will develop our understanding of narrative structure on the basis of oral narratives of personal experience, told by speakers from a wide range of geographic backgrounds and social classes. It will link the principles governing oral narratives to the narratological examination of myth, literature and film by Propp, Greimas, Prince, Chatman, and others.The principles that emerge from the study of oral narrative will be re-examined in literary narrative, including Scandinavian, Greek and Hebrew epics, medieval romances, film, and modern novels, with attention to the differences between vernacular, literary and academic style. The class will then consider the work of psychologists on how narratives are remembered and understood, based on the causal network theory of Trabasso, and apply these principles to narratives written to teach children to read, particularly those designed to reflect the cultural and linguistic framework of African American children.
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