GRAMMATICAL VARIABILITY OF LANGUAGE

LINGUIS 303

Understanding language change; relation of variation and change to formal properties of human language; consideration of linguistic typology, basic concepts and methods of diachronic analysis. Topics include: language classification and reconstruction; language and social identity, geography, and power; language contact; registers; writing systems.

LINGUIS 101

Elementary theory and practical work in phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax, with attention to formal grammar.

LINGUIS 330

Grammatical theory; types of elements and processes usable in syntactic description of various sorts.

LINGUIS 571

In-depth study of all components of the grammar of a language.

LINGUIS 322

Morphological characteristics of the world's languages. Introduction to theoretical approaches to morphology. Interaction between morphology and syntax; morphology and phonology.