This course investigates the relationship between language and culture at the interface of linguistics and anthropology. It examines the ways in which language reflects the perception of the world, ways of life and beliefs of its speakers, creates rituals and maintains social ties, and is used by people of different ages, genders, social classes, and ethnicities. We will discuss hypotheses that try to explain the nature of relationship between language and culture and then turn to a wide variety of topics which are relevant for both linguists and anthropologists. These include, for instance, kinship systems, language of perception (e.g. colors, spatial relations), politeness across languages and cultures, and writing systems.

BUILDING: DEWEY | ROOM: 2110D

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The course examines the use advertisers make of language in selling their products and how it affects our perceptions of the product and ourselves. The emphasis is on learning about linguistic practice. The course will appeal to those who are curious about the central role language plays in the art of persuasion presented as advertising. The course touches upon the structure of language only insofar as it is relevant for understanding advertising as a form of social action. The acquired linguistic tools will help us to understand how commercial messages achieve their effect, regardless of their origins: business, culture or grass roots movements.

BUILDING: GAVET | ROOM: 202

This course introduces students to the study of the structure of human language. We will cover the six core areas of linguistic investigation: Phonetics (articulation, acoustics, and perception of speech sounds), Phonology (sound patterns), Morphology (internal structure of words and their organization in the mental lexicon), Syntax (internal structure of phrases and sentences), Semantics (word and sentence meaning), and Pragmatics (language use in context). The course focuses on developing skills in the areas of linguistic data analysis and interpretation of linguistic data in ways that aim to address theoretical and empirical issues in the study of language.

BUILDING: MEL | ROOM: 221

PREREQUISITES: None

This course introduces students to the study of the structure of human language. We will cover the six core areas of linguistic investigation: Phonetics (articulation, acoustics, and perception of speech sounds), Phonology (sound patterns), Morphology (internal structure of words and their organization in the mental lexicon), Syntax (internal structure of phrases and sentences), Semantics (word and sentence meaning), and Pragmatics (language use in context). The course focuses on developing skills in the areas of linguistic data analysis and interpretation of linguistic data in ways that aim to address theoretical and empirical issues in the study of language.

BUILDING: GRGEN | ROOM: 109

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Drawing on work in linguistics and rhetorical grammar (e.g., Halliday, Biber, Kolln, Hyland), this course investigates the sentence—its structure, its potential, and its limits in creating meaning. Students will learn about the form and function of “the sentence” and its parts, develop the ability to see patterns and possibilities within and across sentences, and create and analyze sentences of wildly different shapes. Assignments will regularly involve meaningful play with sentences. Through a final project, students will investigate some aspect of the sentence in extended discourse or discuss how knowledge of the sentence might be meaningfully integrated into a writing curriculum. This course is ideal for those interested in writing, writing education, or editing. Background in linguistics or grammar is not necessary. Open to undergraduates and graduate students.

BUILDING: RRLIB | ROOM: G108

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: LATT | ROOM: 513

PREREQUISITES: LIN 110; LIN 210 recommended but not required

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

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BUILDING: LATT | ROOM: 513

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

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Overviews the nature and processing of human languages, including comparisons between language and animal communication systems, the biological bases of human language, and the cognitive mechanisms used in producing, understanding, and learning language.

BUILDING: STRNG | ROOM: LOWER

PREREQUISITES: BCS 110 or BCS 111 or LIN 110

This course covers foundational concepts in computational linguistics and is designed for students with a strong background in formal linguistic methods but little or no programming experience. Major focus is placed on deploying techniques used in computational linguistics to advance linguistic theory as well as developing students' ability to implement these techniques. Topics include basic object-oriented programming in Python, basic formal language theory, probability theory and information theory, finite state phonological and morphological analysis, generative and discriminative models for shallow syntactic and semantic parsing, and bottom-up, top-down, and mixed algorithms for syntactic and semantic parsing.

BUILDING: LATT | ROOM: 513

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

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

An introduction to natural language processing: constructing computer programs that understand natural language. Topics include parsing, semantic analysis, and knowledge representation. CSC 447, a graduate-level course, requires additional readings and assignments.

BUILDING: GAVET | ROOM: 312

PREREQUISITES: CSC 242

This syntactic theory course examines syntactic phenomena from the perspective of phrase structure and lexicalist grammar as opposed to transformational grammar. The course will examine and develop phrase structure grammar (specifically Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar) approaches to standard syntactic problems, contrasting them where appropriate with transformational approaches. No background in non-transformational approaches will be assumed. This course can be taken as LIN 261 or as LIN 461 and is meant for linguistics majors and non-majors alike.

BUILDING: LATT | ROOM: 513

PREREQUISITES: LIN 110, LIN220 or permission of instructor.

This is a hands-on class that introduces you to major techniques and tools in language documentation and description. You will learn how to collect and record a variety of language data through elicitation and text collection. The emphasis is then on organizing, managing, and processing these data sets for various purposes, such as building up a dictionary, annotating natural speech, and time-aligning media of different formats with computational tools such as Praat, Toolbox, and ELAN. Further, we will discuss crucial topics in language documentation such as fieldwork, ethics, and language revitalization.

BUILDING: LATT | ROOM: 513

PREREQUISITES: LIN110 or permission of instructor

This class is the continuation of 271/471. At the end of this course, you will have acquired methods and techniques to describe a language not known to you previously. This includes recording and collection of data, data processing and analysis. Another focus of this course is training in grammar writing skills. Ultimately, this course provides you with a solid basis to do fieldwork and language description on your own in the future. In contrast to LIN389, this class focusses more on integration of natural text into the descriptive analysis.

BUILDING: LATT | ROOM: 431

PREREQUISITES: LIN271

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