printer friendly pageLINGUIST 234: Discourse Analysis
The organization of language above the sentence level, and the manifestation of language in context. Practical experience in working with discourse data.
LINGUIST 235: Semantic Fieldwork
Techniques for evidence from less well-studied languages within formal semantic theory. Semantic phenomena, and techniques for investigating them, including scope, quantifiers, pronouns, focus, tense, aspect, mood, evidentiality, and information structure. Practical work on a language.
LINGUIST 237: Seminar in Semantics: Semantics of Questions and Commands
Semantics of interrogatives and imperatives; propositional semantics of declaratives. Research emphasizing the meaning of questions. May be repeated for credit.
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LINGUIST 245: Experimental Design for Linguistics
Hypothesis formation, confound avoidance, power, general methods, and analysis of results. Students complete a pilot experiment; write-up; peer review; presentation.
LINGUIST 251: Sociolinguistic Field Methods
Strengths and weaknesses of the principal methods of data collection in sociolinguistics.
LINGUIST 252: Sociolinguistics and Pidgin Creole Studies (LINGUIST 152)
Introduction to pidgins and creoles, organized around the main stages in the pidgin-creole life cycle: pidginization, creolization, and decreolization. Focus is on transformations in the English language as it was transported from Britain to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. Resultant pidginized and creolized varieties such as Nigerian Pidgin English, Chinese Pidgin English, New Guinea Tok Pisin, Suriname Sranan, and the creole continua of Guyana, Jamaica, and Hawaii. Also French, Dutch, Portugese, Chinook, Motu, and Sango.
LINGUIST 257: Seminar in Sociolinguistics: Community Studies of Variation
May be repeated for credit.
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LINGUIST 264: English Transplanted, English Transformed: Pidgins and Creoles
English varieties around the world, including white vernacular dialects and creole, pidgin, and indiginized Englishes. Emphasis is on the historical circumstances of origin, linguistic characteristics, and social setting in colonial and postcolonial societies. Theoretical issues pertaining to language contact, language shift, and pidgin and creole formation.
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LINGUIST 270: The Arabic Language and Culture (AMELANG 36)
Arabic language from historical, social, strategic, and linguistic perspectives. History of the Arabic language and the stability of classical Arabic over the last 15 centuries. Why the functionality of classical Arabic has not changed as Latin, Old English, and Middle English have. Social aspects of the Arabic language, Ferguson¿s notion of diglossia. The main varieties of Arabic, differences among them, and when and where they are spoken. Role of Arabic and culture in current world politics, culture, and economy. Linguistic properties of Arabic such as root-based morphology, lexical ambiguity, and syntactic structure relating it to current linguistic theories.
LINGUIST 273: The Structure of Russian (LINGUIST 173)
A synchronic overview of contemporary standard Russian, including its sound system, word formation and grammatical structure. Emphasis is on problems presented by Russian for current linguistic theory. The acquisition of Russian as a first language.
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