[Linguistics 81. Language and Gender]
Catalog Number: 4668
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Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
This course explores connections between language use, sex, and gender. Do sex and gender affect the ways we speak and the ways we interpret and evaluate speech? How do differences in people’s sociocultural positions, particularly their degree of power, affect how they use language, how others interpret what they say or write, and their relation to linguistic change? How does conversation structure the social worlds of men and women? How do linguistic practices support or challenge gender arrangements?
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Linguistics 86. Ebonics: Myths and Facts
Catalog Number: 0637
Salikoko Mufwene (University of Chicago)
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
An introduction to the study of Ebonics, or African-American English (including Gullah). Topics to be covered will include the status of Ebonics in relation to other American English vernaculars; its controversial position in the schools; its use in the media; its use as a marker of ethnic identity (e.g., in hip-hop culture); its origins; its relation to other creole languages and dialects; its influence on mainstream American language and culture; and its role as a basis of racial prejudice.
Linguistics 88. Language and Cognition
Catalog Number: 5126
Jonathan Nissenbaum
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4, 13
What does language tell us about the human brain? We will approach this question from various psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic perspectives: speech perception and perceptual illusions; language disorders; blind sight and split brain effects; brain imaging; neural networks and computer modeling of language. We will also touch on the problems of speech recognition and speech synthesis, focusing on the light that these topics shed on the nature of linguistic knowledge.
*Linguistics 91r. Supervised Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 1100
Bert Vaux, Susumu Kuno, and members of the Department
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Spring: Tu., Th., 7–8:30 p.m.
Independent study with a faculty member. For students who wish to pursue a particular linguistic topic not covered in other course offerings.
Note: Students should consult the Head Tutor about having the course count towards the concentration.
*Linguistics 97r. Group Tutorial — Sophomore Year
Catalog Number: 1791
Bert Vaux, Susumu Kuno, and members of the Department
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). M., Tu., W., or Th., 3-5. EXAM GROUP: Spring: 8, 9
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 both the fall and spring terms.
Note: Required of concentrators.
*Linguistics 98a. Group Tutorial — Junior Year
Catalog Number: 4222
Bert Vaux, Susumu Kuno, and members of the Department
Half course (fall term). M., Tu., W., or Th., 3–5.
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.
Note: Required of concentrators.
*Linguistics 98b. Tutorial — Junior Year
Catalog Number: 7273
Bert Vaux (spring term), Susumu Kuno (spring term), and members of the Department
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Individual tutorial with a faculty member.
Note: Required of concentrators.
*Linguistics 99. Tutorial — Senior Year
Catalog Number: 3082
Bert Vaux, Susumu Kuno, and members of the Department
Full course. Hours to be arranged.
Individual tutorial with a faculty member for research and writing of the Linguistics honors thesis. Graded Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory. An honors student who expects not to complete the thesis should consult with the Head Tutor about completing other substantial work to receive credit for the course.
Note: Required of honors concentrators.
Linguistics 112a. Introduction to Syntactic Theory
Catalog Number: 7318
Lynn Nichols
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
An introduction to syntactic theory, analysis and argumentation in the model of generative grammar. Discusses analyses & hypotheses of grammatical structure forming the foundation of current syntactic theory. Emphasis on constituent structure analysis, motivation for transformations, constraints on rule application and conditions on representations. Survey of syntactic phenomena, including argument structure, movement and anaphora.
Linguistics 112b. Intermediate Syntax
Catalog Number: 4730
C.-T. James Huang
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
Continuation of 112a. Fundamental principles and parameters of Government and Binding Theory.
Prerequisite: Linguistics 112a.
Linguistics 114. Introduction to Morphology
Catalog Number: 1289
Lynn Nichols
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 12.
An introduction to the analysis of word structure. Topics include the place of word formation in relation to phonological and syntactic phenomena, the nature of the lexicon, current theories of morphology. Consideration of morphological issues in acquisition and processing. Emphasis on the analysis of morphological phenomena in a wide range of typologically diverse languages.
Linguistics 115. Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
Catalog Number: 2791
Jie Zhang
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 2. EXAM GROUP: 7
Analysis of phonetic and phonological data from a wide variety of languages. The first part of the course focuses on phonetic phenomena; topics will include articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, aerodynamic mechanisms for speech, production and transcription of the sounds of the world’s languages, and phonetic issues in speech synthesis. The second part of the course focuses on formal analysis of phonological patterns; topics will include underlying and surface representations, phonemes and allophones, contrast, neutralization, distinctive features, and rules and their ordering. Problem sets will place emphasis on practical skills.
[Linguistics 116. Semantics]
Catalog Number: 6115
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Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
An introductory course on semantic interpretation in natural language. What does it mean to “know the meaning” of an utterance? This course will provide the formal tools to characterize truth-conditional meanings of sentences. Topics to be covered include the relation between form and meaning, ambiguity, reference, the role of context dependency, quantifier scope, and variable-binding.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Linguistics 117r. Linguistic Field Methods
Catalog Number: 8401
Lynn Nichols
Half course (spring term). Th., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 18
Instruction in the elicitation of phonological, morphological, and syntactic information from a native speaker of an unfamiliar language, toward developing a grammatical sketch of the language. Emphasis on methodology and problems of elicitation and grammatical description in the field. Participants work directly with the native speaker, both individually and as a group, with the assistance of the instructor.
Linguistics 118. Introduction to Discourse Analysis
Catalog Number: 8709
Susumu Kuno
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
An examination of various principles that govern communication between the speaker/writer and the hearer/reader. Topics include presupposition, point of view, discourse and sentence themes, discourse deletion, and reference and honorification. Data from English and Japanese.
Note: No previous knowledge of Japanese required.
Linguistics 120. Introduction to Historical Linguistics
Catalog Number: 8486
Jay H. Jasanoff
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Methods and goals of linguistic reconstruction. Topics include the regularity of sound change, types of linguistic change, the relationship between linguistic reconstruction and synchronic analysis, language contact and borrowing, and mechanisms of linguistic change, including recent theories.
[Linguistics 122. Introduction to Indo-European]
Catalog Number: 1336
Jay H. Jasanoff
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
An introduction to the historical study of the Indo-European languages, using the comparative method to arrive at a picture of the parent language of the family, Proto-Indo-European.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
[Linguistics 123. Indo-European Phonology and Morphology]
Catalog Number: 9259
Jay H. Jasanoff
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Designed as a sequel to Linguistics 122. A detailed overview of Indo-European comparative grammar, with emphasis on recent developments and discoveries.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Linguistics 140. Understanding Creole Vernaculars and Cultures
Catalog Number: 7362
Salikoko Mufwene (University of Chicago)
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 2. EXAM GROUP: 7
A survey of vernaculars that arose among slaves on 17th- and 18th-century plantations of especially the New World and the Indian Ocean as they appropriated colonial European languages as their vernaculars. We will focus especially on those that developed from English and French, though others will also be discussed. Topics include structural peculiarities of creoles; issues regarding their emergence, especially regarding the contribution of substrate languages (notably those brought from Black Africa) to their structures; what findings on their developments tell us about language evolution in general; whether or not they are separate languages.
[Linguistics 152. Introduction to Syntactic Parsing]
Catalog Number: 3166
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Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
An introduction to recent investigations of sentence processing. Topics to be considered include the influence of lexical, syntactic, and discourse factors on sentence comprehension and production, the role of working memory in processing, the nature of syntactic deficits in patients with language disorders, and cross-linguistic differences in sentence processing.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Prerequisite: Linguistics 112a.
[Linguistics 158r. From Indo-European to Old Irish]
Catalog Number: 3801
Calvert Watkins
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Essentials of Celtic historical and comparative grammar.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Prerequisite: Some acquaintance with either Indo-European or Old Irish.
[Linguistics 168. Introduction to Germanic Linguistics]
Catalog Number: 7925
Jay H. Jasanoff
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
A combined introduction to Gothic and the comparative grammar of the older Germanic languages.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Linguistics 171. Structure of Chinese
Catalog Number: 4346
C.-T. James Huang
Half course (fall term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Introduction to the syntactic structure of Mandarin Chinese: the basic structure of clauses and nominal constituents; words, compounds, and phrases; word order and variations; selected special topics (passives, resultatives, ba-construction, topic and relativized structures, questions, anaphora, pro drop); syntactic structure and semantic interpretation.
Prerequisite: Linguistics 112a in previous or current semester.
Linguistics 173. Linguistic Issues in the Teaching of Japanese
Catalog Number: 4208
Wesley M. Jacobsen
Half course (spring term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
An examination of selected phenomena in Japanese phonology, morphology, and syntax with special attention to difficulties encountered in the acquisition of Japanese by adult native English speakers.
Prerequisite: Japanese 101b or its equivalent. Familiarity with basic linguistics concepts desirable.
[Linguistics 174. Tense and Aspect in Japanese]
Catalog Number: 1856
Wesley M. Jacobsen
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Examination of phenomena of tense and aspect in Japanese, with special attention to verbal semantics and the interaction of temporal categories with modality and transitivity.
Note: Expected to be given in 2003–04.
Prerequisite: Knowledge of Japanese equivalent to Japanese 101b, or familiarity with the linguistic structure of a non-Indo-European language, or permission of instructor.
[Linguistics 175. Structure of Japanese]
Catalog Number: 6658
Susumu Kuno
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Examination of syntactic and semantic features of Japanese from the point of view of language typology and language universals.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. No previous knowledge of Japanese required.
Prerequisite: Linguistics 112a or equivalent.
[Linguistics 176. History of the Japanese Language]
Catalog Number: 4861
Wesley M. Jacobsen
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
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.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
[Linguistics 178. Topics and Methods in Psycholinguistics]
Catalog Number: 1347
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Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This course will discuss selected experimental research on questions of importance to theoretical linguistics, such as: How many “senses” do polysemous words have? How are these “senses” stored in the brain? Is the distinction between derivation and inflection psychologically real? How does language change come about? How do we understand language as rapidly as we do? The goal of the class is to develop a familiarity with commonly-used methods in psycholinguistics and to understand the applicability of these methods to linguistic research.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Prerequisite: Linguistics 110 or consent of instructor.
Linguistics 204r. Topics in Syntax
Catalog Number: 6446
C.-T. James Huang
Half course (spring term). F., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Examination of current issues of syntactic theory representing instructor’s and/or students’ research interest. This year the topic will be on issues surrounding the syntax-semantics interface, possibly including binding, long-distance anaphora, and the syntax and semantics of moved and in-situ wh-questions.
[Linguistics 205. The Syntax-Semantics Interface]
Catalog Number: 0776
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Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
This course will explore issues related to the architecture of the grammar, with emphasis on the structures that are interpreted at the semantic interface, and how they are derived.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Prerequisite: Linguistics 112b or permission of the instructor.
Linguistics 206. Syntactic Structure and Argument Structure
Catalog Number: 9020
C.-T. James Huang
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
How do predicates differ with respect to their argument selection properties? How are lexical properties projected to syntactic structures? How do languages differ in syntactic structures and what explains the variations? We shall examine these and related issues in light of recent proposals, with emphasis on language variation and the role of functional categories.
Linguistics 215. Phonological Theory
Catalog Number: 5612
Jie Zhang
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Survey of phonological theory. The course will begin by looking at the properties of rule-based phonology (especially rule typology, principles of rule-ordering, and structure preservation), and work its way to Optimality Theory.
Linguistics 219r. Advanced Phonology
Catalog Number: 2154
Jie Zhang
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
An in-depth examination of the role of phonetics in phonology. A variety of phonetically-driven phonological phenomena will be discussed from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Different approaches to phonetics in phonology: rich representation (à la Steriade, Kirchner, Boersma, Zhang), phonetics in history (à la Blevins and Garrett, Ohala, Hyman), and phonetics in learning (à la Hayes). Necessary phonetic background will be provided.
Linguistics 220ar. Advanced Indo-European
Catalog Number: 3428
Calvert Watkins
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Topics in the comparison of formulaic sequences, and other aspects of Indo-European poetics. Conducted as a seminar.
Linguistics 221r. Workshop in Indo-European
Catalog Number: 1008
Jay H. Jasanoff
Half course (fall term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
Conducted as a seminar. The topic for the year will be arranged in consultation with interested students.
[Linguistics 223. Comparative Anatolian]
Catalog Number: 2620
Jay H. Jasanoff and Calvert Watkins
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Comparative survey of the synchronic and diachronic grammar of the ancient Indo-European languages of Anatolia, with special attention to nominal and verbal morphology.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
[Linguistics 224. Historical and Comparative Linguistics]
Catalog Number: 2967
Jay H. Jasanoff
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
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, subgrouping.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Linguistics 225a. Introduction to Hittite
Catalog Number: 8206
Calvert Watkins
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 12
Grammar and reading of texts in cuneiform and in transliteration; essentials of the comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages of Anatolia.
Note: No previous knowledge of cuneiform presumed.
Linguistics 226r. Advanced Hittite
Catalog Number: 0858
Calvert Watkins
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Texts of various genres.
Note: Provisions will be made for any student who wishes to begin Hittite this semester.
Linguistics 241r. Practicum in Syntax and Phonology
Catalog Number: 4260
Susumu Kuno and members of the Department
Half course (spring term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Presentation of reports on current research or assigned topics.
Note: Required of both second- and third-year graduate students concentrating in syntax or phonology.
[Linguistics 242r. Practicum in Historical Linguistics]
Catalog Number: 5569
Jay H. Jasanoff and Calvert Watkins
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Presentation of reports on current research or assigned topics.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03. Required of both second- and third-year graduate students concentrating in historical linguistics.
[Linguistics 247. Topics in Germanic Linguistics]
Catalog Number: 3693
Jay H. Jasanoff
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Investigaton of selected topics in Germanic historical linguistics.
Note: Expected to be given in 2002–03.
Linguistics 250. Old Church Slavonic
Catalog Number: 8449
Michael S. Flier
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 10–11:30. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13
History of the first Slavic literary language, its role in Slavic civilization; phonology, morphology, syntax, and vocabulary of Old Church Slavonic; reading from canonical texts.
Linguistics 252. Comparative Slavic Linguistics
Catalog Number: 3571
Michael S. Flier
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 10–11:30. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13
Introduction to the historical phonology and morphology of the Slavic languages with special attention to relative chronology and linguistic geography.
Prerequisite: Linguistics 250.
Linguistics 277r (formerly Linguistics 277). Topics in Japanese and Korean Syntax
Catalog Number: 2661
Susumu Kuno
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4.
Contrastive analysis of major syntactic constructions of Japanese and Korean.
Prerequisite: Linguistics 175 or equivalent.
Linguistics 291r (formerly Linguistics 291). Functional Approach to Syntax
Catalog Number: 5046
Susumu Kuno
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
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.
*Linguistics 301. Reading or Special Topics Course
Catalog Number: 0861
Members of the Department and others listed under Linguisitics 300.