Linguistics 311
General Linguistics
Full course for one semester. Intended to give a broad introduction
to linguistics. The course provides sufficient background in the
various aspects of the discipline to allow students to pursue more
specialized courses and to read independently in the field. The
course employs readings and empirical problems in a wide range of
the world's languages. Topics introduced include the nature of
language and the aims of linguistic description; historical
linguistics; phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax;
linguistic semantics; and selected issues in pragmatics, language
variation and change, and socio- and psycho-linguistics. This
course is open to first-year students with consent of the
instructor. Conference. Cross-listed as Anthropology 311.
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