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Central topics in Finnish morphology, syntax, and semantics and how they bear on current theoretical debates. Topics: clause structure; case; aspect; word order.

Central topics in the syntax, morphology, and phonology of Slavic languages and how they bear on current theoretical debates. Prerequisites: Linguistics 222A (Foundations of Syntactic Theory I) and Linguistics 210A (Phonology)

Graduate seminar focusing on Cantonese linguistics. Topics based on student interest, drawing from: lexical and formal semantics, conversation analysis, syntax, discourse and pragmatics, variation, social meaning, phonology, diachronics, dialectology, phonetics, computational analysis, psycholinguistics and more. Prerequisite: graduate standing in linguistics or permission of instructor.

Practical training in the collection and analysis of linguistic data from native speakers of a language largely unknown to the investigator. Documentation of endangered languages. Research goals, field trip preparation, ethics (including human subjects, cooperation with local investigators, and governmental permits), working in the community, technical equipment, and analytical strategies. Emphasis is on the use of recording devices and computers in collection and analysis. Students are strongly encouraged to make a commitment to both 274A and 274B/274L in the same year. Prerequisites: One course in phonetics or phonology and syntax, or permission of the instructor. Open to undergraduates with permission of instructor only.

Continuation of 274A, with a focus on student projects in a targeted language. Prerequisite: 274A or consent of instructor. Graduate students are strongly encouraged to make a commitment to both 274A and 274B in the same year. For full credit, students are expected to work privately with the consultant outside of class time.

Continuation of 274A, in which students work on projects in a targeted language. Students are expected to work privately with the consultant outside of class time. Prerequisite: 274A or consent of instructor.

This lab-based course is an overview of research methods that are used in the development of Black educators, including survey research, individual and focus group interviews, ethnographic methods, and documentary activism. Lab participants will be guided through critical thinking about the professional and personal development of Black educators while assessing the utility and relevance of research-based responses to that development in partnership with a particular educational organization or agency.

This course employs design thinking methodologies to help students learn to focus and develop questions of interest for their projects in linguistics, and to articulate these questions clearly to experts in their fields and to general audiences. Each week, we will meet and have an interactive discussion addressing our questions (e.g., what needs to be true/answered first in order for me to ask this question, and is that need satisfied?; how can i best test this question?). Students will develop flexibility, presentation skills, openness to giving and receiving feedback, and principled pivoting. The course involves readings that we will discuss as a class and apply to our own projects; one reading each week in the student's own area of research; weekly integration of that work to question development; paired and group activities implementing core design thinking principles; a two-page concept note, and a proposed study design. The course is designed to move any project forward and give students skills to apply to future project development - so the beginning and endpoints will be different for every student.

Computer programming techniques for collecting and analyzing data in linguistic research. Introduction to the UNIX, regular expressions, and Python scripting. Hands-on experience gathering, formatting, and manipulating corpus, field, and experimental data, combining data from multiple sources, and working with existing tools. Knowledge of computer programming not required.