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MW 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 36) 12/14/2009 M 2.00 Areas Hu Types of change that a language undergoes over time: sound change, analogy, syntactic and semantic change, borrowing. Techniques for recovering earlier linguistic stages: philology, internal reconstruction, the comparative method. Language change and linguistic theory. The role of language contact in language change.
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M-F 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 32) 12/12/2009 S 9.00 Skills L1 An introduction to Sanskrit language and grammar. Focus on learning to read and translate basic Sanskrit sentences in the Indian Devanagari script.
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T 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 27) 12/17/2009 Th 2.00 Permission of instructor required Introduction to the Hittite language. Explanation of grammar, with readings in transcription from old, middle, and new Hittite texts representing different literary genres.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas So Knowledge of language as a component of the mind: mental grammars, the nature and subdivisions of linguistic knowledge in connection with the brain. The logical problem of language acquisition. The ?universal grammar hypothesis? according to which all humans have an innate ability to acquire language. The connection between language acquisition and general cognitive abilities.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas So The structure of sound systems in particular languages. Phonemic and morphophonemic analysis, distinctive-feature theory, formulation of rules, and problems of rule interpretation. Emphasis on problem solving.
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M-F 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 33) 12/18/2009 F 9.00 Skills L3
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TTh 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So An introduction to the syntax of natural language. Generative syntactic theory and key theoretical concepts. Syntactic description and argumentation. Topics include phrase structure, transformations, and the role of the lexicon.
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TTh 4.00-5.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So The development of communication and language in children from birth to adolescence. Preverbal communication, lexical learning, morphological and syntactic development, phonological perception and production, the acquisition of pragmatic and communicative competence, and the relation of these skills to literacy.
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MW 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required An introduction to the language and literature of earliest Norway and Iceland. Texts (to be read in the original) include runic inscriptions left behind by the Vikings, verse of their official skalds, the sometimes irreverent mythological poetry of the Edda, and the sagas telling of the Norse discovery of America.
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MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Skills QR Mathematical methods in linguistics. Topics include set theory, logic and formal systems, model theory, lambda calculus, formal language theory, elementary statistics, and probability.
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Th 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Theories concerning the morphological nature of the inputs to phonological derivations. Uniqueness vs. nonuniqueness of the underlying forms of morphological elements; simultaneous vs. incremental construction of morphologically complex words; relations of similarity and dissimilarity within paradigms.
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MW 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 37) 12/18/2009 F 2.00 Areas So Meets during reading period Descriptive and theoretical approaches to grammatical relations (subject, object, etc.) and their role in syntax, argument structure, and universal grammar. Comparison of diverse models: traditional approaches, case grammar, relational grammar, lexical-functional grammar, GB and its developments. Grammatical relations and thematic roles (theta-roles). Grammatical relations in typological and historical perspectives.
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T 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Components of grammar and their relationships, explored from the Minimalist paradigm. Focus on the interplay between syntactic computation and the systems of morphology, phonology, semantics, and the lexicon.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Exploration of the psychological reality of specific proposals regarding how syntactic structure and semantic structure come together (e.g., how meaning is derived from sentence organization). These proposals are examined through an experimental psycholinguistic (real-time parsing) and neurolinguistic (lesion studies and neuroimaging) perspectives. Specific phenomena to be evaluated include anaphora resolution, control, and argument and event structure.
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MW 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills QR Areas So Permission of instructor required Introduction to truth-conditional compositional semantics. Set theory, first- and higher-order logic, and the lambda calculus as they relate to the study of natural language meaning. Some attention to analyzing the meanings of tense/aspect markers, adverbs, and modals.
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T 2.30-4.30 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period Conventional implicatures as semantic but truth-conditionally vacuous aspects of meaning. Discourse particles, expressives, politeness markers, 'free' datives. Multidimensional theories of meaning and their relation to syntactic structure, compositional semantics, and pragmatics.
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Th 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period Cross-linguistic differences in the distribution and interpretation of tense and aspect from a comparative and historical perspective. Evaluation of descriptive and empirical accounts from the grammaticalization and typology literature as informed by formal semantic research on tense/aspect categories.
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M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Survey of agreement and concord phenomena in the languages of the world. Connections between agreement and pronominal clitics. Theories of the implementation of agreement relations in the syntax and of the realization of agreement morphology.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Special projects set up by students with the help of a faculty adviser and the director of undergraduate studies to cover material not otherwise offered by the department. The project must terminate with at least a term paper or its equivalent and must have the approval of the director of undergraduate studies. Only one term of credit for a project may count toward the major; no more than two terms may count toward the bachelor?s degree.
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W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Development of skills in research, writing, and presentation. Topics include choosing a research topic; presenting one's ideas clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing; methodological issues; and the balance between building on existing literature and making a novel contribution.
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LING 500 01 (10616) /ENGL500 MW 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009 The essentials of the language, some prose readings, and close study of several poems:
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LING 512 01 (10892) /LING112 MW 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 Types of change that a language undergoes in the course of time: sound change, analogy, syntactic and semantic change, borrowing. Techniques for recovering earlier linguistic stages: philology, internal reconstruction, the comparative method. Language change and linguistic theory. The role of language contact in language change.
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LING 515 01 (10893) /LING115/SKRT110/SKRT510 M-F 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 Careful study of Sanskrit grammar both in its historical development and as the synchronic systems attested in classical Sanskrit. Comparisons with other Indo-European languages. Close reading of later Sanskrit texts.
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LING 516 01 (10894) /LING116 T 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 Introduction to the Hittite language. Explanation of grammar, with readings in transcription from old, middle, and new Hittite texts representing different literary genres. No knowledge of cuneiform is necessary, but familiarity with an inflected language (Latin, Greek, German, Russian) is essential.
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LING 517 01 (10896) /PSYC137/LING117 TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Knowledge of language as a component of the mind: mental grammars, the nature and subdivisions of linguistic knowledge in connection to the brain. The logical problem of language acquisition. The ?universal grammar hypothesis,? according to which all humans have an innate ability to acquire language. The connection between language acquisition and general cognitive abilities.
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