Course Catalog - 2011-2012

     

LING 500 - LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Long Title: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
Department: Linguistics
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 200 OR LING 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. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Cross-list: ANTH 500, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: LING 300. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for LING 500 if student has credit for LING 300.