#  Courses Test Page 

 



### Fall, 2013

  [### Ling 83: Language, Structure & Cognition 

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 What do the world's almost 7,000 languages have in common? Why do they show recurrent commonalities and principled differences? What do they reveal about the human ability for speaking and thinking? How do languages develop? How do they die? This course addresses these and... 

 

   [### Ling 102: Sentence Structure

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 **Year offered:**  2013 

 

 What determines how the words in a sentence are put together in a given language? This course introduces the field of syntax, and the study of order and structure among words. Students will learn to construct and evaluate syntactic analyses and argumentation and will be... 

 

   [### Ling 115: Phonological Theory I

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 **Year offered:**  2013 

 

 This graduate level class is an intensive introduction to phonological theory and experimental work in phonology. This includes rule-based and constraint-based approaches, the typology of phonological processes (vowel and consonant harmony, assimilation and dissimilation... 

 

   [### Ling 112: Syntactic Theory I

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 **Year offered:**  2013 

 

 This course provides an intensive introduction to generative syntactic theory. Emphasis on syntactic argumentation. Topics center on foundational problems in the theory of syntax, including phrase structure of nominals and clauses, varieties of movement, locality, argument... 

 

   [### Ling 105: Sounds of Language

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 **Year offered:**  2013 

 

 What are the sounds of the world languages, and how are they organized to make words and sentences? Why are some sounds hard to hear or make? Is there a `universal inventory' of sounds? This class introduces students to the sounds of the world's languages, and provides tools... 

 

   [### Ling 204r: Topics in Syntax

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 Examination of current issues in syntactic theory with focus on topics of interest to the class. 

 

   [### Ling 116r: Semantic Theory I

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 **Year offered:**  2013 

 

 An introductory course on semantics in generative grammar. This course provides the formal tools to investigate the truth-conditional meanings of sentences. Topics covered include: compositionality, type theory and the fundamentals of clause structure, quantifier scope, and... 

 

   [### Ling 225a: Introduction to Hittite

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 **Year offered:**  2013 

 

 Grammar and reading of texts in cuneiform and in transliteration; essentials of the comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages of Anatolia.