This course is an advanced survey of current areas of research in linguistic anthropology. Topics include language and thought, cultural difference in linguistic interactions, the ethnography of communication, ritual uses of language and identify and cultural poetics.
The focus will be on intensive study of problems and issues that do not fall under linguistics course headings. These may have an interdisciplinary emphasis, or they may concentrate on some special topics of current research. All topics will be subject to review by the director of the program. May be repeated under different subtitle to a maximum of six credits.
This course studies the historical development of language through time and space, examining the internal mechanisms and external influences involved in language change. Change will be examined at all levels: orthographic, phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and lexical. The course will also to investigate a variety of topics related to the phenomenon of language change; language classification; comparative linguistics; the reconstruction of linguistic systems; the social context of language change.
This course presents a focused investigation of an individual language or a set of languages (in a language family or other defined grouping, e.g., connected by geopolitical area), examining genetic and typological features of the language(s) from a structural, historical, and/or sociolinguistic perspective. The course may be taken twice for up to six (6) credits under different subtitles. Prerequisite: LIN 221 & LIN 222, or consent of instructor.
This course provides an introduction to current constraint-based theoretical approaches within phonology, emphasizing Optimality Theoretic approaches. Within this framework students will analyze individual features, sounds and prosodic units, all within problem sets conducted in class and at home. This course may require LIN 640 taken concurrently.
Advanced investigation into a designated topic in linguistic theory and typology. May be repeated to a maximum of twelve credits under different subtitles.
This course allows students to undertake study of special topics in linguistics under faculty supervision. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
This course allows students to undertake study of special topics in linguistics under faculty supervision. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
This course allows students to undertake study of special topics in linguistics under faculty supervision. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
This course allows students to undertake study of special topics in linguistics under faculty supervision. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
