<p>Lecture, four hours. Requisite: course 200B. Current results in word-order universals; genetic classification of world’s languages; cross-language properties of specific construction types, including relative clauses, passives, positive and negative coreference systems, agreement systems, deixis systems, and types of sentence complements. S/U 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.

General Catalog

Syntactic Typology

LING 215

2 or 4 units