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Grammar and text readings in Cuneiform and Hieroglyphic Luvian.
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Topics in Indo-European comparative grammar. Conducted as a seminar.
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An examination of selected topics in morphology. Topics this year will include reduplication, cliticization, and affix ordering. Students will consult with instructor on possible research topics.
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An examination of why phonological phenomena exist at all, and the nature of phonological computation. Primarily exemplification from harmony, reduplication, and meter. Design conditions imposed by economy, perception, articulation, the learning path, and the lexicon.
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Readings in canonical Old Church Slavonic texts and later Church Slavonic redactions.
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The third course in the syntax sequence, focusing on major issues in current syntactic theory. Topics include head movement, case and agreement, anaphora, constraints on movement and derivations.
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This course is an in-depth investigation into comparative Austronesian syntax. The Austronesian language family -- roughly 1,200 genetically-related languages dispersed over an area encompassing Madagascar, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and islands of the Pacific -- exhibits several unusual properties: verb-first word order, ergativity, wh-agreement, articulated voice systems, and cleft structures. The course examines these phenomena from the perspective of comparative Austroonesian syntax.
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The class is meant as an exploration of the biology of language. Specifically, it investigates the nature of human language and its importance for the study of the mind and the brain. We will discuss current research into the development of language which tries to make sense of the underlying universality of our language faculty as well as the diversity found in individual languages. We will discuss issues of language design (as a biological system) and language evolution.
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Introduction to the historical phonology and morphology of the Slavic languages with special attention to relative chronology and linguistic geography.
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Essentials of Celtic historical and comparative grammar.
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Discourse-oriented analysis of syntax based on the functional sentence perspective (theme and rheme) and on the "point of view" perspective (the speaker's attitude toward participants in an event). Examines pronominalization, reflexivization, and various deletion and movement processes.
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Meets as two six-week small-group tutorials, both held in the fall term, each covering one of the areas of linguistics listed under Linguistics 97r.
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Meets as two six-week small-group tutorials, both held in the fall term, each covering one of the areas of linguistics listed under Linguistics 97r.
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Intensive study in a selected linguistic area such as phonology, syntax, historical linguistics, phonetics, morphology, semantics, psycholinguistics, acquisition, sociolinguistics, creole studies, or computational linguistics. Meets as two six-week small-group tutorials, in the spring term.
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This course will present and analyze theoretical and experimental aspects of heritage language study. A heritage language is a minority language that an individual was exposed to in childhood but never learned to full competence because of the switch to another language. The course will identify critical linguistic generalizations applying to heritage languages. We will test the universal principles of language structure that are expected to stay unchanged in any language. The students will also learn crucial methodologies and tools for investigating heritage languages and their speakers in an experimental setting. Class discussions will reflect the current social and political discourse surrounding heritage populations. The work done in this class will lead to the development of experimental methodologies and tools for studying and testing heritage languages in the classroom.
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An introduction to diachronic linguistics at the graduate level. Theory of language change: sound change and analogy, syntactic and semantic change, change in progress. The comparative method: proving genetic relationship, reconstruction, and subgrouping.
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An examination of evidence from the comparative method, internal reconstruction, and written documents for reconstructing prehistoric stages of the Japanese language and an overview of major developments in Japanese phonology and grammar from the Nara period through the present day.
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This course analyzes the structure of incompletely acquired languages. Emphasis will be on incomplete acquirers (heritage speakers) whose acquisition was interrupted at an early age. Empirical data from several incompletely acquired languages (Russian, Polish, Czech, Lithuanian, Armenian, Korean, Vietnamese, and Tagalog) will be examined to show how incomplete acquisition leads to constraint-based grammars with systematic similarities. Other topics: testing and education of heritage speakers, comparison of heritage speakers with speakers of pidgin and creole languages.
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Designed as a sequel to Linguistics 122. A detailed overview of Indo-European comparative grammar, with emphasis on recent developments and discoveries.
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Focuses on enriched phonological representations and on representational constraints: syllabification, subsyllabic constituency, autosegmental phonology, the phonological skeleton and timing tier, feature geometry, underspecification, metrical stress, and prosodic morphology.
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Continuation of 116a. Designed to enable students to follow current research in semantics. Topics covered include: intensional contexts, indexicals, modalities, event based semantics, presuppositions, implicatures.
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Continuation of 112a. Fundamental principles and parameters of Government and Binding Theory.
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An introduction to the comparative and historical linguistics of the Germanic family, with emphasis on Gothic and the early medieval languages.
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