Graduate Program

Term Schedule

Fall 2019

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
LIN 405 HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS – MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM
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. BUILDING: \| ROOM: PREREQUISITES: LIN 110; LIN 210 recommended but not required
LIN 406 (ENG 200) HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ROZENSKI S TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM
All languages change over time, often in predictable patterns. Where did today’s standard English come from, and how is our sense of that standard tied to assumptions about race, class, gender, and nationality? To find out, we will begin roughly 5,000 years ago,studying the common ancestor of languages as different as English, Hindi, and Polish: Proto-Indo-European. We will learn about the prehistoric roots of English, then turn to the earliest written evidence of it: “Anglo-Saxon” or “Old English,” ca. 600-1100.The language was transformed in the wake of the Norman Invasion of 1066, as English became lower in status than both Anglo-Norman French and Latin for a few centuries. Next, we will learn about the growth of English, and its changes, in the age of Chaucer (Middle English) and Shakespeare (Early Modern English). Finally, we will explore processes of standardization, hybridization, and diffusion in the complex effects of English’s spread across the globe over the course of the past 450 years. BUILDING: LCHAS \| ROOM: 104
LIN 410 (LIN 210) INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE SOUND SYSTEMS MCDONOUGH J MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop. BUILDING: MOREY \| ROOM: 525 PREREQUISITES: LIN110
LIN 424 (LIN 224) INTRO TO COMPUTATIONAL LING WHITE A MW 4:50PM - 6:05PM
This course covers foundational concepts in computational linguistics and is designed for students with a strong background in formal linguistic methods but only rudimentary programming experience. Major focus is placed on the use of formal languages as a tool for understanding natural language as well as on developing students' ability to implement foundational algorithms pertaining to those formal languages. Topics include basic formal language theory, finite state phonological and morphological parsing, and syntactic parsing for context free grammars and mildly context sensitive formalisms. Students who have taken the CSC17X series should consult with the instructor prior to enrollment, since there is overlap with a subset of the technical material covered in those courses. Conversely, while it is possible to enter this course with no programming experience and do well, students new to programming may wish to take CSC161 or to attend a CIRC programming bootcamp prior to taking this course. BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110 Recommended: CSC161 or equivalent
LIN 425 (LIN 225) INTRODUCTION TO SEMANTIC ANALYSIS GRIMM S MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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 units—how 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. BUILDING: HUTCH \| ROOM: 473 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110
LIN 426 (LIN 226) MORPHOLOGY ARMOSKAITE S MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM
The course examines the structure and definition of the linguistic unit "word'" its typology and the relationship of the morphological component to other levels in the grammar. The course includes an introduction to analytical techniques with emphasis placed on an examination of data from a range of languages. The building blocks of words will be analyzed and topics such as affixation, reduplication and inflectional and derivational morphology will be covered. We will examine the properties of words and how they fit into the larger structure of linguistic knowledge, including the relationship between words and syntactic structure (ex., phrases and sentences) and the relationship between words and phonological structure (ex., phonological rules and prosodic structure). BUILDING: MOREY \| ROOM: 502 PREREQUISITES: LIN110
LIN 440 (LIN 240) TOPICS IN LANG VAR. & CHANGE ABTAHIAN M MW 12:30PM - 1:45PM
This course offers an overview of the role of language in society. We’ll examine the way spoken language varies according to the social characteristics of its speakers, focusing on age, sex, ethnicity, style, social status, and geography. We will also explore topics such as politeness theory and language planning and policy. Methods for quantitative analysis of linguistic variation will be introduced. BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 531 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110. LIN 210 or 220 recommended but not required
LIN 448 (CSC 248) Statistical Speech & Language Processing GILDEA D TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
An introduction to statistical natural language processing and automatic speech recognition techniques. This course presents the theory and practice behind the recently developed language processing technologies that enable applications such as speech-driven dictation systems, document search engines (e.g., finding web pages) and automatic machine translation. Students taking this course at the 400 level will be required to complete additional readings and/or assignments. If the course is closed, DO NOT email the professor. Fill out this form to be added to the waitlist: https://goo.gl/forms/IyFoIfjrtISvJls62. Additional places, if any, will become available automatically for online registration. BUILDING: GAVET \| ROOM: 312 PREREQUISITES: CSC 172 and CSC 242
LIN 460 (LIN 260) SYNITACTIC THEORY – TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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). BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110, LIN 220 or permission of instructor.
LIN 462 (LIN 262) EXPERIMENTAL SYNTAX XU Y TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
This course provides an introduction to experimental methods that can be used to investigate questions that are relevant for syntactic theory. We will discuss a range of methodologies, including self-paced reading, visual world eye-tracking, magnitude estimation and questionnaires. The course will be organized around several topics that have been central to syntactic research, such as anaphor resolution, ellipsis and quantifier scope in order to examine how experimental methods can complement existing work; for example, by shedding light on areas where stable judgments have traditionally been difficult to obtain, and by allowing us to investigate the time course of real-time language processing. By the end of this course students will be able to understand and critically evaluate research that uses various experimental methods, and be able to design and run their own experiments. BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110, LIN220 or permission of instructor
LIN 491 MASTER'S READING IN LIN – –
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LIN 495 MASTER'S RESEARCH IN LING – –
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LIN 590 SUPERVISED TEACHING – –
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LIN 591 PHD READING COURSE IN LING – –
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LIN 595 PHD RESEARCH IN LING – –
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Number	Title	Instructor	Time
Monday
Monday and Wednesday
LIN 405 HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS – MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM
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. BUILDING: \| ROOM: PREREQUISITES: LIN 110; LIN 210 recommended but not required
LIN 410 (LIN 210) INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE SOUND SYSTEMS MCDONOUGH J MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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. In addition to the lecture students will need to register for a peer-led workshop. BUILDING: MOREY \| ROOM: 525 PREREQUISITES: LIN110
LIN 440 (LIN 240) TOPICS IN LANG VAR. & CHANGE ABTAHIAN M MW 12:30PM - 1:45PM
This course offers an overview of the role of language in society. We’ll examine the way spoken language varies according to the social characteristics of its speakers, focusing on age, sex, ethnicity, style, social status, and geography. We will also explore topics such as politeness theory and language planning and policy. Methods for quantitative analysis of linguistic variation will be introduced. BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 531 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110. LIN 210 or 220 recommended but not required
LIN 425 (LIN 225) INTRODUCTION TO SEMANTIC ANALYSIS GRIMM S MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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 units—how 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. BUILDING: HUTCH \| ROOM: 473 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110
LIN 426 (LIN 226) MORPHOLOGY ARMOSKAITE S MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM
The course examines the structure and definition of the linguistic unit "word'" its typology and the relationship of the morphological component to other levels in the grammar. The course includes an introduction to analytical techniques with emphasis placed on an examination of data from a range of languages. The building blocks of words will be analyzed and topics such as affixation, reduplication and inflectional and derivational morphology will be covered. We will examine the properties of words and how they fit into the larger structure of linguistic knowledge, including the relationship between words and syntactic structure (ex., phrases and sentences) and the relationship between words and phonological structure (ex., phonological rules and prosodic structure). BUILDING: MOREY \| ROOM: 502 PREREQUISITES: LIN110
LIN 424 (LIN 224) INTRO TO COMPUTATIONAL LING WHITE A MW 4:50PM - 6:05PM
This course covers foundational concepts in computational linguistics and is designed for students with a strong background in formal linguistic methods but only rudimentary programming experience. Major focus is placed on the use of formal languages as a tool for understanding natural language as well as on developing students' ability to implement foundational algorithms pertaining to those formal languages. Topics include basic formal language theory, finite state phonological and morphological parsing, and syntactic parsing for context free grammars and mildly context sensitive formalisms. Students who have taken the CSC17X series should consult with the instructor prior to enrollment, since there is overlap with a subset of the technical material covered in those courses. Conversely, while it is possible to enter this course with no programming experience and do well, students new to programming may wish to take CSC161 or to attend a CIRC programming bootcamp prior to taking this course. BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110 Recommended: CSC161 or equivalent
Tuesday
Tuesday and Thursday
LIN 448 (CSC 248) Statistical Speech & Language Processing GILDEA D TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
An introduction to statistical natural language processing and automatic speech recognition techniques. This course presents the theory and practice behind the recently developed language processing technologies that enable applications such as speech-driven dictation systems, document search engines (e.g., finding web pages) and automatic machine translation. Students taking this course at the 400 level will be required to complete additional readings and/or assignments. If the course is closed, DO NOT email the professor. Fill out this form to be added to the waitlist: https://goo.gl/forms/IyFoIfjrtISvJls62. Additional places, if any, will become available automatically for online registration. BUILDING: GAVET \| ROOM: 312 PREREQUISITES: CSC 172 and CSC 242
LIN 460 (LIN 260) SYNITACTIC THEORY – TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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). BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110, LIN 220 or permission of instructor.
LIN 462 (LIN 262) EXPERIMENTAL SYNTAX XU Y TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
This course provides an introduction to experimental methods that can be used to investigate questions that are relevant for syntactic theory. We will discuss a range of methodologies, including self-paced reading, visual world eye-tracking, magnitude estimation and questionnaires. The course will be organized around several topics that have been central to syntactic research, such as anaphor resolution, ellipsis and quantifier scope in order to examine how experimental methods can complement existing work; for example, by shedding light on areas where stable judgments have traditionally been difficult to obtain, and by allowing us to investigate the time course of real-time language processing. By the end of this course students will be able to understand and critically evaluate research that uses various experimental methods, and be able to design and run their own experiments. BUILDING: LATT \| ROOM: 513 PREREQUISITES: LIN 110, LIN220 or permission of instructor
LIN 406 (ENG 200) HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ROZENSKI S TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM
All languages change over time, often in predictable patterns. Where did today’s standard English come from, and how is our sense of that standard tied to assumptions about race, class, gender, and nationality? To find out, we will begin roughly 5,000 years ago,studying the common ancestor of languages as different as English, Hindi, and Polish: Proto-Indo-European. We will learn about the prehistoric roots of English, then turn to the earliest written evidence of it: “Anglo-Saxon” or “Old English,” ca. 600-1100.The language was transformed in the wake of the Norman Invasion of 1066, as English became lower in status than both Anglo-Norman French and Latin for a few centuries. Next, we will learn about the growth of English, and its changes, in the age of Chaucer (Middle English) and Shakespeare (Early Modern English). Finally, we will explore processes of standardization, hybridization, and diffusion in the complex effects of English’s spread across the globe over the course of the past 450 years. BUILDING: LCHAS \| ROOM: 104
Wednesday
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LIN 491 MASTER'S READING IN LIN – –
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LIN 495 MASTER'S RESEARCH IN LING – –
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LIN 590 SUPERVISED TEACHING – –
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LIN 591 PHD READING COURSE IN LING – –
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LIN 595 PHD RESEARCH IN LING – –
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LIN 595A PHD RESEARCH IN ABSENTIA – –
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LIN 895 CONT OF MASTER'S ENROLLMENT – –
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LIN 897 MASTER'S DISSERTATION – –
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LIN 899 MASTER'S DISSERTATION – –
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LIN 985 LEAVE OF ABSENCE – –
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LIN 995 CONT OF DOCTORAL ENROLLMENT – –
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LIN 997 WRITING DISSERTATION – –
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LIN 997A DOCT DISSERTATN IN ABSENTIA – –
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LIN 999 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION – –
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LIN 999A DOCT DISSERTATN IN ABSENTIA – –
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