LING 404-1
Arshia Asudeh
MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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This course looks at key ideas in linguistics, starting in Babylon and Ancient China and working towards the study of meaning in modern linguistic theory and philosophy of language. Among the topics we will look at are: writing and its influence on grammatical traditions; the advent of historical linguistics, linguistic phylogeny, and the comparative method; European structuralism; American structuralism; variation within and across languages; the rise of generative grammar; Chomsky’s philosophy of linguistics, including competence and I-language; literal meaning and beyond. Students will be expected to read a selection of primary literature and participate actively in class discussion. The course will be assessed by essays (essay questions and readings lists for each essay to be provided). Prerequisites: LING 410 OR LING 420.
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- Online Room 6 (ASE) (MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM)
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LING 405-1
Maya Abtahian
MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM
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This course is designed to give an introduction to the principles of linguistic variation and change, and to examine their practical application in the interdisciplinary subfields of historical linguistics and historical sociolinguistics. Topics covered include diachrony and synchrony, genetic relations, the comparative method and language classification, sound change, morphological, syntactic and semantic change, borrowing, types of language contact, areal linguistics, and linguistic variation and social stratification.s
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- Lattimore Room 201 (MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM)
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LING 406-1
Sarah Higley
TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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English is a huge banquet of words. Its history is one of invasions and adaptations. Brought to Britain by Germanic tribes in the 5th century, it was matured by violent and peaceful contact with other peoples and ideas. Few other languages are so accepting of neologism as English, so humongous in vocabulary, so malleable of construction. We’ll peruse texts from Old, Middle and Modern English and watch it grow from a Teutonic tongue to the powerful, ductile, and eclectic instrument it is today, spreading to other continents, colonizing, absorbing and irritating. We’ll read texts about linguistic Angst and jouissance by Alfred the Great, Aelfric, Robert of Gloucester, Chaucer, Caxton, Mulcaster, Shakespeare, Locke, Swift, Johnson, Webster, Orwell and others who praised or blamed our shifty English. Finally, we’ll grok urban dialects, vernaculars, slang, lolcat, texting, propriety and proscription. Is it “based on” or “based off of”? Does it matter? Is English in decline or poised on a new horizon?
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- Online Room 14 (ASE) (TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM)
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LING 410-2
Joyce McDonough
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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The goal of this course is to provide a background for understanding the principles that underlie the structure of sound systems in human languages. Starting with the notion phoneme, the course focuses on acoustic and articulatory phonetics, as a basis for understanding phonological processes and change in linguistic sound forms. Students will acquire skills in the production, recognition, and transcription of sounds in various languages of the world. The course will serve as a foundation for work in language documentation, sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, morphology. This course can be taken as LIN 210 or as LIN 410 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike.
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- Lattimore Room 201 (MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM)
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LING 425-1
Scott Grimm
MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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This course introduces students to the basics of the analysis of meaning in natural language. The first section focuses on devices that motivate certain forms to take on the meanings they have. The second section of the course moves on to discuss how meanings combine to form meanings for larger unitshow words and phrases combine to form sentences meanings. Using logical notation we illustrate the formal analysis of natural language meaning in terms of truth-conditions. We will discuss the basics of set theory, and investigate how meanings represented in these terms correlate with the syntactic and lexical structures of sentences of natural language. Students of graduate standing or those with strong formal backgrounds may consider starting with LIN 265/465 instead, for which this course is ordinarily a prerequisite. This course counts towards satisfying the core course requirement for majors.
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- Hutchison Hall Room 473 (MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM)
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LING 448-1
Daniel Gildea
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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- Online Room 10 (ASE) (TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM)
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LING 460-1
Joanna Pietraszko
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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This course picks up where LIN 220 leaves off, though focusing more on topics in natural language syntax from a cross-linguistic perspective. The goal of the course is an approach to syntax that accounts for both language-particular as well as universal constraints on language. Among the topics studied are head and phrase movement, constraints on co-reference (anaphora), elipsis, and agreement (phi features).
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- Gavett Hall Room 301 (TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM)
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LING 470-2
Nadine Grimm
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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This class is addressed to anyone interested in fieldwork involving data collection of spoken language, including for instance linguists, anthropologists, or historians. Languages and cultures are currently disappearing on an unprecedented level due to the effects of globalization and displacement of people. Minority groups are often the most affected. As languages and cultures die, we lose entire knowledge systems and communities an integral part of their identity. This class introduces you to major techniques and tools of collecting and curating language data, using it for your research purposes, and making it useful to speech communities and other scholars. We will investigate the importance of language as a social convention from an interdisciplinary perspective, including, e.g., issues in intercultural research and ethics in fieldwork. Students will design their own projects, depending on their personal interests, and receive hands-on training in audio and video recording, time-aligned annotations, data management, and archiving.
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- Lattimore Room 201 (TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM)
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LING 491-1
Nadine Grimm
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LING 491-2
Joyce McDonough
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LING 491-3
Scott Grimm
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LING 491-4
Arshia Asudeh
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LING 491-5
Maya Abtahian
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LING 491-6
Joanna Pietraszko
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LING 495-1
Joyce McDonough
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LING 495-2
Scott Grimm
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LING 495-3
Nadine Grimm
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LING 495-4
Arshia Asudeh
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LING 495-5
Maya Abtahian
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LING 495-6
Joanna Pietraszko
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LING 501-1
Scott Grimm
M 6:15PM - 7:30PM
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- Lattimore Room 513 (M 6:15PM - 7:30PM)
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LING 590-1
Solveiga Armoskaite
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LING 590-2
Scott Grimm
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LING 590-3
Nadine Grimm
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LING 590-4
Joyce McDonough
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LING 590-5
Joanna Pietraszko
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LING 590-6
Arshia Asudeh
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LING 590-7
Maya Abtahian
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LING 591-2
Nadine Grimm
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LING 595-1
Jeffrey Runner
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LING 895-1
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LING 897-1
Joyce McDonough
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LING 897-2
Scott Grimm
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LING 897-3
Nadine Grimm
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LING 897-4
Arshia Asudeh
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LING 897-5
Joanna Pietraszko
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LING 897-6
Maya Abtahian
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LING 995-1
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LING 997-1
Jeffrey Runner
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LING 999-1
Jeffrey Runner
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