Linguistics 348
Languages of the Americas
Full course for one semester. The study of the language families of
the Americas has been a central focus of both linguists and
anthropologists. The diversity of the languages, their exotic
nature compared to Indo-European, and the richness of materials
available makes especially rewarding intense study of particular
groups of languages. This course will concentrate, in any given
year, on one such family. Beginning with typological considerations
that locate the languages of the family within wider parameters of
linguistic description, the course will include detailed syntactic
treatment of at least one member of the family. We shall try to
evaluate competing descriptive mechanisms in light of the
structure, both syntactic and semantic, of the languages in
question. May be repeated for credit with consent of the
instructor. Prerequisite: Anthropology/Linguistics 311 or consent
of the instructor. Conference-seminar. Cross-listed as Anthropology
348.
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