Introduces the syntax of Romance languages, primarily French, Italian, and Spanish, but also various Romance dialects. Considers what they have in common with each other (and with English) and how best to characterize the ways in which they differ from each other (and from English).
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2020)
LING-UA 42-000 (18682)09/02/2020 – 12/13/2020 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Kayne, Richard
A state-of-the-art survey of the cognitive neuroscience of language, a rapidly developing multidisciplinary field at the intersection of linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. Covers all aspects of language processing in the healthy brain, from early sensory perception to sentence-level semantic interpretation, as well as a range of neurological and development language disorders.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2019)
LING-UA 43-000 (10444)09/03/2019 – 12/13/2019 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Pylkkanen, Liina
LING-UA 43-000 (10445)09/03/2019 – 12/13/2019 Tue3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Blanco-Elorrieta, Esti
The methods of genealogical classification and subgrouping of languages. Examines patterns of replacement in phonology, morphology, and syntax. Focuses on internal and comparative phonological, morphological, and syntactic reconstruction. Considers phonological developments such as Grimm’s, Grassmann’s, and Verner’s Laws.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2019)
LING-UA 14-000 (10088)01/28/2019 – 05/13/2019 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Introduces primary literature in syntactic theory and leads to an independent research project. Topics vary: binding theory, control, case theory, constraints on movement, antisymmetry, argument structure and applicatives, ellipsis, derivation by phase, etc.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
LING-UA 16-000 (19354)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Harves, Stephanie · Kayne, Richard
Analysis (LING-UA 13), or permission of the instructor. Offered every year. Collins, Gallagher, Gouskova. 4 points. Students interview a native speaker of an unfamiliar language to study all aspects of the language’s grammar: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics. We evaluate and organize real, nonidealized linguistic data and formulate generalizations that serve as the basis for research.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
LING-UA 44-000 (9373)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gallagher, Gillian · Collins, Christopher
Approaches from linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. Topics: the evidence for constructing grammars, the interpretation of grammatical rules as cognitive or neural operations, the significance of neo-behaviorist approaches to language and computational modeling for a cognitive theory of language, the connection between linguistics theory and genetics, and the importance of sociocultural and historical variation for understanding the nature of language.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
LING-UA 48-000 (9629)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Marantz, Alec
Considers social forces that favor or inhibit bilingualism, as well as the educational consequences of bilingual education (and of monolingual education for bilingual children). Examines the impact of bilingualism on the languages involved. Special attention to code switching, with particular reference to its psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic aspects.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2022)
LING-UA 18-000 (8465)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Vrzic, Zvjezdana · Møller Krogh, Simone
Focuses on the compositional semantics of sentences. Introduces set theory, propositional logic, and predicate logic as tools and goes on to investigate the empirical linguistic issues of presuppositions, quantification, scope, and polarity. Points out parallelisms between the nominal and the verbal domains.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Focuses on phonology and phonetics (i.e., sound structure), but also addresses the structure of words and phrases. Topics: bilingualism, language contact, language loss, indigenous language education, literacy, orthography, and language policy. Emphasis on the Quechuan languages of the Andes in South America, spoken in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
The building blocks of words and sentences: the atomic units of word structure, their hierarchical and linear arrangement, and their phonological realization(s). An introduction to fundamental issues including allomorphy, morpheme order, paradigm structure, blocking, and cyclicity. Interactions of morphology with syntax, phonology, semantics, and variation.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
LING-UA 55-000 (20018)
An introduction to the morphosyntax of Russian. Students learn how to analyze the underlying structures of this language by using formal tools in syntactic theory. The core areas of Russian grammar: case, aspect, argument structure alternations, topic/ focus structure, negation, binding, control, and wh-movement. No knowledge of Russian required.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
LING-UA 10-000 (20310)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Harves, Stephanie
Introduces rules for composing words and sentences from the smallest units of linguistic combination (morphemes). Why can the same message be expressed in one word in some languages but require an entire sentence in others? Why do the shapes of prefixes, suffixes, and roots change depending on their semantic and phonological context? What rules do different languages use for forming new words? No previous background in linguistics is required.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
LING-UA 29-000 (20308)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gouskova, Maria · Tabachnick, Guy
How and why American varieties of Spanish and Portuguese differ from European varieties, as well as the distribution and nature of dialect differences throughout the Americas. Examines sociolinguistic issues: class and ethnic differences in language, the origin and development of standard and nonstandard varieties, and the effects of contact with Amerindian and African languages. Considers Spanish- and Portuguese-based creoles and the question of prior creolization.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
LING-UA 30-000 (10062)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Guy, Gregory
LING-UA 30-000 (10063)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Stuck, Matthew
How linguistic practices reflect and shape our gender identity. Do women and men talk differently? Are these differences universal or variable across cultures? How does gendered language intersect with race and class-linked language? What impact does gendered language have on social power relationships?
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
LING-UA 21-000 (8360)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Shapp, Allison
LING-UA 21-000 (8361)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Akanegbu, Anuli
Builds a solid command of predicate logic and elements of the lambda calculus. Introduces the principles of compositional model theoretic semantics. Analyzes constituent order and a set of specific phenomena, possibly varying from year to year.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
LING-UA 19-000 (20307)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Szabolcsi, Anna
What determines the sequencing of words in a given language? How can we explain word-order variation within and across languages? Are there universal syntactic properties common to the grammar of all languages? Presents the modern generative approach to the scientific study of language and systematically develops a model that will account for the most basic syntactic constructions of natural language.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
LING-UA 13-000 (8358)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Collins, Christopher
LING-UA 13-000 (8359)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gotah, Selikem
Psycholinguistics aims to understand the mental processes that underlie both the representation and acquisition of language. Topics include language acquisition, speech perception, lexical representation and access, sentence production, and the relationship between phonology and orthography.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Language is a social phenomenon, but languages share elaborate and specific structural properties. Speech communities exist, exhibit variation, and change within the strict confines of universal grammar, part of our biological endowment. Universal grammar is discovered through the careful study of the structures of individual languages, by cross-linguistic investigations, and the investigation of the brain. Introduces fundamental properties of the sound system and of the structure and interpretation of words and sentences against this larger context.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
LING-UA 1-000 (8354)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Champollion, Lucas
LING-UA 1-000 (8355)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Grosu, Ioana
LING-UA 1-000 (8356)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Okon, Thaddeus
LING-UA 1-000 (9146)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Thoms, Gary
LING-UA 1-000 (9147)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Blix, Hagen
LING-UA 1-000 (9148)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Zhao, Zhuoye
Can machines think? Do patterns in online searches predict the spread of the flu? Did Shakespeare really write that sonnet? Scientists use patterns in language to answer these questions, using the same concepts that underlie search engines, automatic translators, speech recognition, spell-checkers, and auto-correction tools. Focuses on the technological and linguistic ideas behind these applications and offers hands-on experience and insight into how they work. No programming experience required.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
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