<p>Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisite: course 20. Study of essential similarities and differences among languages in grammatical devices they use to signal the following kinds of concepts: relations between nouns and verbs (case and word order), negation, comparison, existence/location/possession, causation, interrogation, reflexivization, relativization, attribution (adjectives), time (tense and aspect), and backgrounding (subordination). Data from a range of languages presented and analyzed. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

Linguistics

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College of Letters and Science

The department focuses on the scientific study of language in all aspects; programs emphasize linguistic theory in combination with fieldwork, experimentation, and computational methods.

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Syntactic Typology and Universals

LING 127

5 units