printer friendly pageLINGUIST 1: Introduction to Linguistics
This introductory-level course is targeted to students with no linguistics background. It is designed to provide an overview of methods, findings, and problems in eight main areas of linguistics: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Historical Linguistics, and Sociolinguistics. Through lectures, in-class activities, and problem sets, you will come away with an overview of various linguistic phenomena, a sense of the diversity across languages, skills of linguistic analysis, an awareness of connections between these linguistics and applications of linguistics more broadly, and a basis for understanding the systematic, but complex nature of human language. While much of the course uses English to illuminate various points, you will be exposed to and learn to analyze languages other than English. By the end of the course, you should be able to explain similarities and differences of human languages, use basic linguistic terminology appropriately, apply the tools of linguistic analysis to problems and puzzles of linguistics, understand the questions that drive much research in linguistics, and explain how understanding linguistics is relevant for a variety of real-world phenomena.
Terms: Aut, Sum
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Hilton, K. (PI)
;
Krejci, B. (PI)
;
Brickhouse, C. (TA)
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Instructors:
Hilton, K. (PI)
;
Krejci, B. (PI)
;
Brickhouse, C. (TA)
;
Early, M. (TA)
;
Hermosillo, A. (TA)
;
Ragupathi, A. (TA)
;
Velasquez, T. (TA)
LINGUIST 130B: Introduction to Lexical Semantics
Introduction to basic concepts and issues in the linguistic study of word meaning. We explore grammatical regularities in word meaning and the relation between word meaning and the conceptual realm. The questions we address include the following. How is the meaning of a word determined from its internal structure? How can simple words have complex meanings? What is a possible word? How does a word's meaning determine the word's syntactic distribution and what kind of reasoning does it support? What kind of information belongs to the lexical entry of a word? The course will show that the investigation¿of the linguistic and semantic structure of words draws on the full resources of linguistic theory and methodology. Prerequisites:
SYMSYS1,
LINGUIST1,
LINGUIST35, or equivalent or permission of the instructor.
LINGUIST 130A is not a prerequisite for this course.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-FR
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