The nature and composition of the English vocabulary, with particular attention to Greek and Latin elements, and its development among diverse cultures and societies; techniques of morphological analysis, allomorphy, derivational morphology, formal and semantic change, and Indo-European etymology.

The scientific study of language, emphasizing such topics as the organization of grammar, language in space and time, and the relationship between the study of language and other disciplines.

The scientific study of language, emphasizing such topics as the organization of grammar, language in space and time, and the relationship between the study of language and other disciplines.

The scientific study of language, emphasizing such topics as the organization of grammar, language in space and time, and the relationship between the study of language and other disciplines.

An introduction to the syntax, operations, and data structures of the Python programming language. Students will write programs to structure, manipulate, and perform analyses with textual data.

Logical reasoning and quantitative literacy for linguistics. Recognition of patterns, making generalizations, abstraction to a formal system, application of the system to specific situations, identifying valid arguments, and the use of mathematical models, with a focus on applications in linguistics.

An introduction to the study of language in its cultural and social dimensions, with an emphasis on language variation and use. Focuses on issues related to theory, methodology, and application relevant to the various subfields in sociolinguistics, dialectology, and related fields of linguistics.

Fundamentals of language in general and Spanish in particular. Linguistic knowledge, language variation, and language contact phenomena. Representative Spanish sound systems, syllabic structure, sentence patterns, structure and meaning of words. Analysis of data from oral and written registers. Given in Spanish.

Fundamentals of language in general and Spanish in particular. Linguistic knowledge, language variation, and language contact phenomena. Representative Spanish sound systems, syllabic structure, sentence patterns, and structure and meaning of words. Analysis of data from oral and written registers. Given in Spanish.

Principles of speech articulation and acoustic features of vowels and consonants; transcription of speech using the International Phonetic Alphabet, focusing on English but including many other languages; and the study of patterns of sounds across languages to understand phonological theory: how speech is systematically represented in the human mind.

An overview of the Slavic family of languages, aspects of their historical development, and characteristics of their modern linguistic systems. Selected topics in the phonology, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistics of individual Slavic languages will be addressed. No prior knowledge of any Slavic language is required. All readings and discussions will be in English.

The field of French linguistics, emphasizing such topics as the internal and external history of French; the sounds, forms, and vocabulary of modern French; and the linguistic variation within France and the French-speaking world.