Linguistics (LINGUIS)

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Courses

LINGUIS 1A American Sign Language I 5 Units

Introduction of the fundamentals of American Sign Language: comprehension skills, grammatical structures, practice in the production aspects of the language, and exposure to Deaf culture.

LINGUIS 1B American Sign Language II 5 Units

Continuation of the study of the fundamentals of American Sign Language: comprehension skills, grammatical structures, practice in the production aspects of the language, and exposure to Deaf culture.

LINGUIS R1B Endangered Languages: What We Lose when a Language Dies 4 Units

In this course, we will investigate such questions as: What causes language endangerment and death, and why does it matter? Can dying languages be revitalized? How are thought, identity, and culture influenced by language, and vice versa? The course is designed to hone students' reading, writing, and research skills. Satisfies the second half of the reading and composition requirement.

LINGUIS 2A American Sign Language 3 5 Units

Continuation of the study of the fundamentals of American Sign Language; comprehension skills, grammatical structures, practice in the production aspects (expressive and receptive) aspects of the language, and increased exposure to Deaf Culture.

LINGUIS 3 Linguistic Diversity 3 Units

(For students with no previous background in linguistics.) Introduction to the scope of human linguistic diversity. Concepts for understanding in what ways human languages can vary and how such variation is constrained. Overview of how linguistic structures are distributed among the world's major linguistic families, and how these linguistics structures cluster geographically. Theories of how and why languages change, diverge, diversify, and in some cases, become extinct.

LINGUIS 5 Language and Linguistics 4 Units

A general survey of the field of linguistics. Students are introduced to a wide range of data from diverse languages to basic principles of linguistic analysis.

LINGUIS 11 Writing Systems 3 Units

Examines different writing systems in terms of their historical origin and their cognitive properties. Enrollment limited to 15 students.

LINGUIS 16 The English Vocabulary 3 Units

The sources and the resources of the English lexicon. The structures, meanings, formational principles, and pronunciation of complex words in English. Native and borrowed word-formational processes. The development of technical terminologies. Etymology and semantic change.

LINGUIS S16 The English Vocabulary 3 Units

The sources and the resources of the English lexicon. The structures, meanings, formational principles, and pronunciation of complex words in English. Native and borrowed word-formational processes. The development of technical terminologies Etymology and semantic change.

LINGUIS 22 Introduction to the History of the English Language 3 Units

An introduction to the major ways in which the English language has changed over the past 1,200 years. Students will be expected to learn and be able to apply a few basic linguistic concepts in order to understand better the developments we observe. We will investigate data from both literary and non-literary texts.

LINGUIS 23 Language and Sex 3 Units

Introduction to linguistic principles through analysis of sexual terminology and collocations. Exploration of sociolinguistic issues related to sex, gender, and sexuality. Examination of how societal attitudes about sexuality are reflected in language, and how different languages express sexual concepts differently.

LINGUIS 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit

The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 freshmen.

LINGUIS 40 Language of Advertising 3 Units

The ways in which language is used in advertising. An introduction to basic linguistic principles of how speech acts work, the semantic effects of framing, and the contribution of language to multimodal print and video advertising: the division of labor between images and words, and different strategies in integrating them into a single message. Cultural differences both in advertising "message strategies" (what content is presented) and in "formal strategies" (how is it presented?).

LINGUIS 47 Language and Communication Disorders 3 Units

An overview of major communication disorders, and an introduction to career options in speech/language pathology and related career paths. The characteristics of all major types of adult aphasia and several other common adult-onset communication disorders, including dysarthria, apraxia of speech, and communication disorders accompanying right-hemisphere disorders. Principal differences and similarities between symptoms of aphasia and the effects of aging in neuro-typical speakers, and between symptoms of aphasia and effects of dementia on language processing. Career paths related to language disorders, such as speech language pathology, and how to prepare for them. Resources for people living with aphasia in the Bay Area and U.S.

LINGUIS 51 The Brain's Politics: How the Framing of Issues Works 3 Units

The ways in which knowledge about the brain, mind, and language illuminates politics. Covers political topics of current interest.

LINGUIS S55 The American Languages 3 Units

A linguistic view of the history, society and culture of the United States. The variety of languages spoken in our country, and the issues surrounding them: language and ethnicity, politics of linguistic pluralism vs. societal monolingualism, language and education, language shift, loss, retention and renewal. Languages include English (standard and nonstandard; Black English), pidgins and creoles, Native American languages, Spanish, French, and immigrant languages from Asia and Europe.

LINGUIS S55X The American Languages 3 Units

A linguistic view of the history, society, and culture of the United States. The variety of languages spoken in our country and the issues surrounding them: language and ethnicity, politics of linguistic pluralism vs. societal monolingualism, language and education, language shift, loss, retention, and renewal. Languages include English (standard and nonstandard; Black English), pidgins and creoles, Native American languages, Spanish, French, and immigrant languages from Asia and Europe.

LINGUIS 65 Music and Language 3 Units

This course investigates the musical characteristics of human language. Major questions include: the relationship between musical and linguistic structures, such as tone, stress, and rhythm; the role of ethnomusicology in language study; how music and language are perceived and processed in the brain differently; and the acoustic properties of speech and music.

LINGUIS 97 Research Practicum 1 - 3 Units

Individual research on projects in the subfields of Linguistics, sponsored by a faculty member; written reports required.

LINGUIS 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units

Group study of a topic not included in the regular department curriculum.

LINGUIS 100 Introduction to Linguistic Science 4 Units

An intensive introduction of linguistic analysis, including core areas such as phonetics and phonology, morphology, and syntax and semantics, with data from a range of languages. Argumentation and writing skills are developed through substantial weekly homework assignments.

LINGUIS C104 The Mind, Language, and Politics 4 Units

An analysis of contemporary liberal and conservative thought and language, in terms of the basic mechanisms of mind: frames, prototypes, radial categories, contested concepts, conceptual metaphor, metonymy, and blends. The framing of political discourse. The logic of political thought. The purpose of the course is to provide students interested in political and social issues with the tools to analyze the framing of, and logic behind, contemporary political discourse.

LINGUIS C105 The Mind and Language 4 Units

Conceptual systems and language from the perspective of cognitive science. How language gives insight into conceptual structure, reasoning, category-formation, metaphorical understanding, and the framing of experience. Cognitive versus formal linguistics. Implications from and for philosophy, anthropology, literature, artificial intelligence, and politics.

LINGUIS 106 Metaphor 4 Units

The role of metaphor in structuring our everyday language, conceptual system, and world view. Topics include cross-cultural differences, literary metaphor, sound symbolism, and related theoretical issues in philosophy, linguistics, psychology and anthropology.

LINGUIS 110 Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology 4 Units

Introduction to (1) phonetic transcription of speech using the International Phonetic Alphabet, (2) acoustic analysis of speech, (3) physiological and cognitive aspects of speech production and perception, and (4) phonological analysis of language sound systems.

LINGUIS 113 Experimental Phonetics 3 Units

Practical training in experimental phonetics; acoustic, physiological, and perceptual analysis of speech.

LINGUIS 115 Phonology and Morphology 4 Units

Introduction to important cross-linguistic phonological and morphological phenomena as well as standard methods of description and analysis.

LINGUIS 120 Introduction to Syntax and Semantics 4 Units

An introduction to the study of the structural properties of sentences and the connections between sentence structure and sentence meaning.

LINGUIS 121 Logical Semantics 4 Units

Basic logical concepts. Truth, denotation, and their relation. Models and interpretation. Translation from natural language into logical form and compositionality. Quantification and scope. Intensionality, context-dependency, and presupposition.

LINGUIS 122 Language Typology and Linguistic Universals 3 Units

Issues in language typology and linguistic universals. An examination of various linguistic subsystems in different languages. Topics will include interrogatives, pronominal systems, relative clause formation, case systems, etc.

LINGUIS 123 Pragmatics 3 Units

The relation between language use and human actions. Some topics to be emphasized are conversational logic, speech act theory, politeness, social role, psychological perception of oneself and language, variation in language use.

LINGUIS 124 Discourse 3 Units

This course explores how discourse within small group interaction is structured by socio­cultural forces such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, and regional/political affiliation. It looks at various contexts of interaction, from weblogs to political debates to casual chat, in audio, video and text form, covering topics and methods in pragmatics, conversation and discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics.

LINGUIS 125 Gesture, Cognition, and Culture 3 Units

Everyone gestures – even when they might not realize it. This course seeks to uncover what we can learn about cognition and culture through the lens of this integral aspect of our communicative and cognitive selves. We will consider the relationship between language and gesture including its role in language acquisition and in signed languages, and study how gestures help us communicate and help us think. We will also look at cross-cultural differences in gesture, the role of gesture in child development, applications of gesture from education to politics, and unpack the possibility of the gestural origins of human language.

LINGUIS 127 Cross-Cultural Verbal Art 3 Units

This course examines parallels and differences between language art in different cultures, both at the level of form (linguistic parallelism, rhyme, alliteration) and meaning (how is metaphor used, what rhetorical patterns are artistic?). This course is intended to help students develop a sense of what artistic language is, crossculturally, and to let them examine a chosen poetic tradition in detail for their project. The course readings and the theoretical models will be drawn equally from Anthropology and Linguistics.

LINGUIS 128 Linguistic Analysis of Literature 3 Units

Literary texts provide unique material for linguists: good authors manage to use everyday grammatical forms in exceptional ways. In this course, students will read scholarly linguistic works on literary analysis, and also analyze literary texts using the tools they acquire. Linguistics readings will focus on narratology and cognitive linguistic approaches, including mental spaces theory, conceptual metaphor theory, and work on iconicity, viewpoint, and causal structure.

LINGUIS 130 Comparative and Historical Linguistics 4 Units

Methods of reconstruction. Types and explanations of language change. Dialectology. The establishment of language relationships and subgroupings.

LINGUIS 131 Indo-European Comparative Linguistics 3 Units

The affinities of the Indo-European languages and the reconstruction of their common ancestor.

LINGUIS C137 Introduction to Slavic Linguistics 4 Units

An introduction to best practices in applying linguistic analysis to Slavic languages. Development of critical thinking and analytical skills.

LINGUIS C139 Language Spread 3 Units

Linguistic background and the general principles of language spread. Mechanisms of language spread, including creolization-decreolization, language planning, and the role of bilingualism. Case studies in language spread, including Austronesian, Indo-European, Amerindian, Uralic, African, Sinitic, and Australian languages. Relationship of language spread to immigration and culture spreads.

LINGUIS 140 Introduction to Field Methods 3 Units

Training in the discrimination and transcription of the sounds of a particular language. Methods and practice in collecting and processing data from a particular language.

LINGUIS 141 Empiricism and Linguistics 3 Units

This course considers the status of linguistics as a scientific field of inquiry. Methodological approaches and the type of information that serve as data in linguistics are surveyed and placed in the context of other social science methodology and data. Throughout the course, the practice of linguistics as the science of language, its successes and weaknesses, are placed in the context of thought on the philosophy of science. Students design and carry out projects using subject methodologies (introspection, corpus, statistical, fieldwork, experimental).

LINGUIS C142 Language and Thought 3 Units

This seminar explores the relation of language and thought. Is language uniquely human, and if so, what does this reveal about the human mind? Does the particular language you speak affect the way you think, or do human languages reflect a universal conceptual repertoire? The goal of this class is to familiarize you with a set of classic arguments on these themes, together with current research that evaluates these arguments, through weekly reading and discussion.

LINGUIS 146 Language Acquisition 3 Units

An overview of topics and theories in language acquisition: early development of speech perception and production, word learning, generalizing linguistic structure, and differences between first language acquisition, second language acquisition, and bilingualism. We will also compare different theoretical approaches, and address the classic "nature vs. nurture" question by examining both traditional generativist approaches and more recent usage based models.

LINGUIS C146 Language Acquisition 3 Units

An overview of topics and theories in language acquisition: early development of speech perception and production, word learning, generalizing linguistic structure, and differences between first language acquisition, second language acquisition, and bilingualism. We will also compare different theoretical approaches, and address the classic "nature vs. nurture" question by examining both traditional generativist approaches and more recent usage based models.

LINGUIS C147 Language Disorders 3 Units

An introduction to experimental and theoretical research on language disorders, particularly acquired aphasia in adults. Major course themes include the relationship between normal and pathological language, and the usefulness of linguistic analysis for empirical research. Topics include phonetic, phonological, morphological, semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic aspects of language disorders in mono- and multilingual speakers of typologically diverse languages.

LINGUIS 150 Sociolinguistics 3 Units

The principles and methods of sociolinguistics. Topics to be covered include linguistic pragmatics, variation theory, social and regional dialectology, and oral styles.

LINGUIS 151 Language and Gender 3 Units

An overview of research over the past 30 years on the relationship between language and gender: how women's use of language differs from men's, in U.S. and other cultures; how men and women are spoken of differently; how women and men have different amounts of access to power via public discourse; gender differences in nondominant groups (e.g., lesbians and gays; African Americans); the role of stereotyping in linguistic differences between the sexes; role of gender in discourse genres.

LINGUIS 152 Pidgin and Creole Languages 3 Units

This course will cover various pidgins and creoles of the world, examining their linguistic and sociohistorical significance, as well as their use in the modern world.

LINGUIS 155AC Language in the United States: a Capsule History 4 Units

This course brings together history, sociology, and linguistics to develop a deeper view of who we are as a nation. It is organized as a narrative history of the U.S. from the perspective of immigration and language. We devote significant portions to the languages of Native Americans, African American English, and to the Spanish spoken in the U.S., as well as addressing the various other dialects of American English, the numerous smaller immigrant languages, Hawaiian, and ASL.

LINGUIS 158 Computational Methods 3 Units

An introduction to computational methods for linguists. No prior programming experience required. Students will learn how to program, and will use that knowledge to manipulate and analyze linguistic datasets, including corpora. The course will also prepare students for further study in computational modeling.

LINGUIS 159 The Deaf Community and American Sign Language 3 Units

Social and linguistic aspects of the deaf community and its language--American Sign Language (A.S.L.). Lecture, discussion, and videotape presentations will provide an introductory survey of American Deaf Culture in general; the Bay Area community in particular. Specific areas covered include historical, social and political aspects of A.S.L. with particular emphasis on educational and legal institutions. All presentations are conducted in American Sign Language and English.

LINGUIS 159L American Sign Language Laboratory 2 Units

Introduction to American Sign Language with native speaker. Adjunct to Linguistics 159.

LINGUIS C160 Quantitative Methods in Linguistics 4 Units

An introduction to research using quantitative analysis in linguistics and cognitive science. Students will learn how to use the R programming environment for statistical analysis and data visualization.

LINGUIS 165 Topics in Music and Linguistics: Rhythm, Meter, and Text-setting 3 Units

This course will introduce the basics of meter and phrasing in both music and linguistics. It will examine the similarities and differences between the two domains, and go on to consider what happens when elements of the two domains are combined, as in music and lyrics.

LINGUIS 170 History, Structure, and Sociolinguistics of a Particular Language 3 Units

In this course, students explore with a faculty member the history, structure, and sociolinguistics of a particular language. Generally, this is a language that is a research interest of the professor. The language investigated changes with each offering of this course.

LINGUIS 175 American Indian Languages 3 Units

Introduction to the native languages of the Americas.

LINGUIS 181 Lexical Semantics 3 Units

Lectures and exercises in the description of word meanings, the organization of lexical systems, the lexicalization of particular semantic domains (kinship, color, etc.), and contrastive lexicology: lexicalization pattern differences across languages.

LINGUIS H195A Linguistics Honors Course 2 - 4 Units

A two-semester course consisting of independent study of an advanced topic, supervised by a facutly member, and culminating with a senior honors thesis which will be evaluated by a faculty honors committee. Thesis is due on the Monday of the 13th week of the second semester, and honors students will be invited to present their research at an Undergraduate Colloquium.

LINGUIS H195B Linguistics Honors Course 2 - 4 Units

A two-semester course consisting of independent study of an advanced topic, supervised by a facutly member, and culminating with a senior honors thesis which will be evaluated by a faculty honors committee. Thesis is due on the Monday of the 13th week of the second semester, and honors students will be invited to present their research at an Undergraduate Colloquium.

LINGUIS 197 Research Practicum 1 - 3 Units

Individual research on projects in the subfields of Linguistics, sponsored by a faculty member; written reports required.

LINGUIS 198 Directed Group Study and Research 1 - 4 Units

LINGUIS 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 4 Units

LINGUIS 200 Graduate Proseminar in Linguistics 1 Unit

Required of graduate students during first year in program. An introduction to linguistics as a profession, its history, subfields, and methodologies.

LINGUIS 201A Second-Year Proseminar in Linguistics 1 Unit

The goal of the course is to help second-year graduate students navigate the graduate program and develop professional skills.

LINGUIS 201B Advanced Graduate Proseminar in Linguistics 2 Units

The course is designed to help students become professional linguists by showing them how to write abstracts of papers, how to prepare papers for presentation at conferences, and how to prepare written versions of papers for submission as qualifying papers (and for journal publication), as well as to give students practical experience in the public presentation of their work.

LINGUIS 205 Advanced Cognitive Linguistics 3 Units

This will be an advanced course in cognitive linguistics. Among the topics covered will be cognitive bases for aspects of grammatical structure, cognitive constraints on language change and grammaticalization, and motivations for linguistic universals (i.e., constraints on variability).

LINGUIS 208 Psycholinguistics 3 Units

This is a graduate-level introduction to psycholinguistics. This course provides an overview of key questions and research findings in psycholinguistics. Psycholinguistics focuses on the mechanisms underlying human language production and comprehension. Central to psycholinguistics is the formulation of conceptual and computational models of those mechanisms.

LINGUIS 210 Phonetic Theory 3 Units

A reading course focusing on theories of speech production, perception, and acoustics as they relate to phonetic and phonological patterns found in the languages of the world. Students write 5-8 "responses" to target articles, and the class as a whole reads background articles and books that place the target articles into their context.

LINGUIS 211A Advanced Phonological Theory 3 Units

Introduction to phonological theory at the graduate level with an emphasis on cross-linguistic phonological patterns.

LINGUIS 211B Topics in Phonological Theory 3 Units

Continuation of 211A focusing on topics of current interest in phonological theory.

LINGUIS 215 Advanced Morphology 3 Units

Examination of complex morphological systems. Issues in the theory of word morphology.

LINGUIS 220A Syntax and Semantics 1 3 Units

This course aims at developing a solid conceptual, analytical, and empirical foundation for doing research in syntax and semantics. The emphasis is on gaining familiarity with the central empirical phenomena, as well as core theoretical notions, methodology, and argumentation.

LINGUIS 220B Syntax and Semantics II 3 Units

This course continues 220A with an in-depth examination of selected syntactic and semantic phenomena and the methods of their analysis. The phonomena investigated varies with each offering of the course.

LINGUIS 221 Advanced Logical Semantics 3 Units

This course is designed to introduce graduate students to the core principles and empirical issues addressed
by formal semantics and to familiarize them with the analytical tools involved in the investigation of this
domain. The focus of this class is truth-conditional aspects of meaning and the compositional interpretation
of phrases and sentences. Students will develop skills in semantic analysis and argumentation by focusing
on semantic questions that arise in the analysis of a range of different phenomena, including quantification,
the semantics of definite/indefinite descriptions, degree semantics, modality, and events.

LINGUIS 222 Linguistic Typology 3 Units

This course is a graduate level introduction to linguistic typology that covers quantitative, formal, and functional approaches to the typology of morphosyntactic and phonological phenomena. Students will be introduced to: 1) influential frameworks and tools for typological research including implicational hierarchies, semantic maps, and combinatorial typologies; 2) the status of universals in typology and formal, functional, and diachronic explanations for universals; 3) key topics in typology, including word order correlations and sampling methodology, grammatical relations typology, areal typology, and phonological typology.

LINGUIS 225 Construction Grammar: The Relationship Between Thought and Language 3 Units

Construction grammar arose in cognitive linguistics from phenomena showing how thought structures language and how language also structures thought, and from grammatical phenomena that could not be accounted for by transformational grammars. Over the past three decades two major theoretical approaches have evolved: One based on embodied cognition results, conceptual metaphor, and the neural modeling of brain mechanisms necessary to account for thought and language; and another theoretical approach that is disembodied, purely formal, and uses feature structures and head-driven grammars. The course will discuss these and other approaches.


LINGUIS 230 Historical Linguistics 3 Units

The scholarly tradition of historical and comparative linguistics. Methods of reconstruction.

LINGUIS 234 Indo-European Linguistics 3 Units

A survey of Indo-European (IE) linguistics, intended for general linguists interested in learning about the most fully developed sub-area of historical linguistics and for language-area specialists interested in how specific language areas relate to IE as a whole. All areas of the field will be surveyed (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexical semantics, cultural reconstruction, and subgrouping and diversification), with special emphasis on issues of broad current research interest.

LINGUIS 235 History of Linguistics 3 Units

This course surveys selected topics in the history of linguistics.

LINGUIS 240A Field Methods 4 Units

Training in elicitation and analysis of linguistic data in a simulated field setting. The same language is used throughout the year. Linguistics 240B is the continuation of 240A.

LINGUIS 240B Field Methods 4 Units

Training in elicitation and analysis of linguistic data in a simulated field setting. The same language is used throughout the year. Linguistics 240B is the continuation of 240A.

LINGUIS 242 Language, Cognition, and Communication 3 Units

This seminar provides an advanced introduction to the relation of language,
cognition, and communication. We will explore universal aspects of cognition that underlie
language and communication, as well as the effect of one's native language on cognition. We will
do this by: (1) reading a mixture of classic and recent papers on these issues, (2) identifying
interesting questions that are left open by the material covered, and (3) designing and conducting
research to answer those questions.

LINGUIS 245 Anthropological Linguistics 3 Units

Graduate level survey of anthropological linguistics which seeks to understand the role of culture in linguistic meaning, language use, and the development of linguistic form and, conversely, the role of linguistic form and structure in social action and in cultural practices.

LINGUIS 250B Sociolinguistic Analysis: Language Contact 3 Units

This series of courses is designed to give graduate students in linguistics and related fields advanced training in current theories and methods in sociolinguistics. The five courses (Variation; Language Contact; Language and Gender; Conversation/Discourse Analysis; Endangered Languages) represent five major foci of current sociolinguistic interest. Students will be exposed to historical overviews, readings, discussions, and demonstrations of methods and will be expected to do original field research, the results of which are to be presented orally and in a 15- to 25-page research paper.

LINGUIS 250C Sociolinguistic Analysis: Language and Gender 3 Units

This series of courses is designed to give graduate students in linguistics and related fields advanced training in current theories and methods in sociolinguistics. The five courses (Variation; Language Contact; Language and Gender; Conversation/Discourse Analysis; Endangered Languages) represent five major foci of current sociolinguistic interest. Students will be exposed to historical overviews, readings, discussions, and demonstrations of methods and will be expected to do original field research, the results of which are to be presented orally and in a 15- to 25-page research paper.

LINGUIS 250D Sociolinguistic Analysis: Conversation/Discourse Analysis 3 Units

This series of courses is designed to give graduate students in linguistics and related fields advanced training in current theories and methods in sociolinguistics. The five courses (Variation; Language Contact; Language and Gender; Conversation/Discourse Analysis; Endangered Languages) represent five major foci of current sociolinguistic interest. Students will be exposed to historical overviews, readings, discussions, and demonstrations of methods and will be expected to do original field research, the results of which are to be presented orally and in a 15- to 25-page research paper.

LINGUIS 250E Sociolinguistic Analysis: Endangered Languages 3 Units

This series of courses is designed to give graduate students in linguistics and related fields advanced training in current theories and methods in sociolinguistics. The five courses (Variation; Language Contact; Language and Gender; Conversation/Discourse Analysis; Endangered Languages) represent five major foci of current sociolinguistic interest. Students will be exposed to historical overviews, readings, discussions, and demonstrations of methods and will be expected to do original field research, the results of which are to be presented orally and in a 15- to 25-page research paper.

LINGUIS 255 Introduction to Sociocultural Linguistics 3 Units

This course is a graduate-level introduction to the major traditions that have contributed to understanding the relationship between linguistic structure and the social and cultural contexts in which it is embedded. The course focuses on the sociolinguistic variationist tradition and on ethnographic and semiotic approaches to language that emerge from linguistic anthropology, and examines the emerging coalition of the these two traditions in the field of sociocultural linguistics.

LINGUIS 270 Structure of a Particular Language 3 Units

An analysis of the language structure of a particular language. The language investigated changes from year to year.

LINGUIS 290A Topics in Linguistic Theory: Syntax 3 Units

Seminars or special lecture courses.

LINGUIS 290B Topics in Linguistic Theory: Semantics 3 Units

Seminars or special lecture courses.

LINGUIS 290D Topics in Linguistic Theory: Pragmatics 3 Units

Seminars or special lecture courses.

LINGUIS 290E Topics in Linguistic Theory: Phonology 3 Units

Seminars or special lecture courses.

LINGUIS 290F Topics in Linguistic Theory: Diachronic Linguistics 3 Units

Seminars or special lecture courses.

LINGUIS 290H Topics in Linguistic Theory: Linguistic Reconstruction 3 Units

Seminars or special lecture courses.

LINGUIS 290L Additional Seminar on Special Topics to Be Announced 3 Units

Seminar or special lecture courses on linguistic topics.

LINGUIS 290M Topics in Linguistic Theory: Psycholinguistics 3 Units

Seminars or special lecture courses.

LINGUIS 290R Topics in Linguistic Theory: Language and Thought 3 Units

Seminars or special lecture courses.

LINGUIS 297 Research Mentorship 1 - 2 Units

Mentor undergraduates in research on projects in the subfields of linguistics, sponsored by a faculty member; written report required.

LINGUIS 298 Special Group Study 2 - 8 Units

LINGUIS 299 Special Individual Study 2 - 8 Units

LINGUIS 301 Teaching Practice and Instruction 2 or 4 Units

Course may be repeated for credit, but credit for the instructional training portion is to be given only once for each individual course taught by a T.A. For graduate students currently serving as T.A.s in the Department's undergraduate courses. Two units of credit are given for the teaching experience each time a student serving as T.A. enrolls in this course; two more units are given for teaching instruction, this taking the form of weekly consultations between instructors and their T.A.s.

LINGUIS 375 Training for Linguistics Teaching Assistants 2 Units

A teaching-methods "clinic" for first-time Linguistics GSI's. Sessions will deal with the presentation of linguistic concepts in each of the foundation courses, the creation of homework assignments and examination, policies and practices regarding correction of students' work, grading, and feedback.

LINGUIS 601 Individual Study for Master's Students 1 - 8 Units

Individual study for the comprehensive or language requirements in consultation with the field adviser.

LINGUIS 602 Individual Study for Doctoral Students 1 - 8 Units

Individual study in consultation with the major field adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare themselves for the various examinations required of candidates for the Ph.D.

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