Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (LING 200 OR ANTH 200)

Description: A hands-on, data-oriented approach to how different languages construct words and sentences. Students will develop skills in linguistic problem solving and the foundations for pursuing grammatical description. Topics: word classes, morphology, tense-aspect-modality, clause structure, word order, grammatical relations, existentials/possessives/locatives, voice/valence, questions, negation, relative clauses, complements, causatives. Cross-list: ANTH 300, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 500. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 300 if student has credit for LING 500.