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Linguistics Courses
- LING S-101 The Science of Language: An Introduction
- LING S-120 Introduction to Historical Linguistics
LING S-101 The Science of Language: An Introduction (32842)
Class times: Mondays, Wednesdays, 3:15-6:15 pm.
Course tuition: noncredit, undergraduate, and graduate credit $2,700.
This course introduces components of the study of language: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. It presents the view that knowledge of language is best characterized as an unconsciously internalized set of abstract rules and principles. Evidence is drawn from a variety of signed and spoken languages, language universals, child language acquisition, language change, language games, and language disorders. (4 credits)
LING S-120 Introduction to Historical Linguistics (32879)
Class times: Mondays, Wednesdays, noon-3 pm.
Course tuition: noncredit, undergraduate, and graduate credit $2,700.
This course explores different approaches to historical linguistics, the study of language change. We address various types of linguistic change (phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic) and the methods used to investigate these changes. Another important topic of this course is linguistic reconstruction (reconstruction of protolanguages), its methods and goals. We also explore the social and linguistic motivations for linguistic change. Finally, the course considers language contact and borrowing, the genetic/genealogical classification of languages, and the insights historical linguistics brings to understanding prehistory. (4 credits)
