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LING Linguistics ( Arts and Humanities)

LING200 Introductory Linguistics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Behavioral and Social Science (SB) Course.
Does not count toward the Linguistics major and does not fulfill prerequisite requirements for all upper-level courses. Not open to students who have completed HESP120. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HESP120 or LING200. An exploration of the nature of human language, designed for non-majors. Introduction to the basic concepts and methodology of modern linguistic analysis (sound systems, word formation, sentence structure). Additional topics may include: semantics, pragmatics, social aspects of language, dialects, language change, acquisition, writing systems, typology, language universals, comparison with other communication systems, etc.

0101(49171) M. Antonisse (Seats=30, Open=7, Waitlist=0) Books
MW........ 2:00pm- 2:50pm (LEF 2205)

F.........10:00am-10:50am (KEY 0102) Dis

0102(49172) M. Antonisse (Seats=30, Open=2, Waitlist=0) Books
MW........ 2:00pm- 2:50pm (LEF 2205)

F.........11:00am-11:50am (PHY 1402) Dis

0103(49173) M. Antonisse (Seats=30, Open=6, Waitlist=0) Books
MW........ 2:00pm- 2:50pm (LEF 2205)

F.........12:00pm-12:50pm (ARM 0110) Dis

0104(49174) M. Antonisse (Seats=30, Open=2, Waitlist=0) Books
MW........ 2:00pm- 2:50pm (LEF 2205)

Th........11:00am-11:50am (HBK 1108) Dis

0105(49175) M. Antonisse (FULL: Seats=30, Open=0, Waitlist=0) Books
MW........ 2:00pm- 2:50pm (LEF 2205)

Th........12:30pm- 1:20pm (COL 3111) Dis

0106(49176) M. Antonisse (FULL: Seats=30, Open=0, Waitlist=0) Books
MW........ 2:00pm- 2:50pm (LEF 2205)

Th........ 2:00pm- 2:50pm (HBK 1112) Dis

LING240 Language and Mind; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Humanities (HO) Course.
Required for LING majors and recommended for students in related fields.. The study of language as a cognitive phenomenon. Focus on mastering the concepts and technical skills required for further courses in linguistics. Ways of representing people's knowledge of their native language, ways in which that knowledge is attained naturally by children, and how it is used in speaking and listening. Additional topics may include: animal communication, language and the brain, language and thought.

0101(49186) T. Bleam (Seats=50, Open=1, Waitlist=0) Books
MWF.......11:00am-11:50am (WDS 1114)

LING311 Syntax I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
Prerequisite: LING240. Basic concepts, analytical techniques of generative syntax, relation to empirical limits imposed by viewing grammars as representations of a component of human mind. Aspects of current theories.

0101(49196) T. Bleam (FULL: Seats=25, Open=0, Waitlist=0) Books
TuTh...... 2:00pm- 3:15pm (MMH 0108)

LING321 Phonology I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
Prerequisite: LING240. Properties of sound systems of human languages, basic concepts and analytical techniques of generative phonology. Empirical limits imposed by viewing grammars as cognitive representations. Physiological properties and phonological systems; articulatory phonetics and distinctive feature theory.

0101(49206) M. Antonisse (FULL: Seats=25, Open=0, Waitlist=0) Books
TuTh......12:30pm- 1:45pm (MMH 3418)

LING330 Historical Linguistics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
Prerequisite: LING200 or LING240. Recommended: LING321 and LING311. A traditional presentation of language change. Language types and families, sounds and writing systems, grammatical categories. Reconstruction of proto-languages by internal and comparative methods. Recommended: LING311 and LING321.

0101(49216) M. Antonisse (Seats=25, Open=1, Waitlist=0) Books
TuTh...... 9:30am-10:45am (KEY 0124)

LING350 Philosophy of Language; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
Prerequisite: PHIL170 or PHIL173 or PHIL371; or LING311. The nature and function of language and other forms of symbolism from a philosophical perspective.

0101(67920) A. Williams (Seats=30, Open=4, Waitlist=0) Books
TuTh...... 9:30am-10:45am (SQH 2117)

LING410 Grammar and Meaning; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
Prerequisite: LING 311 or permission of instructor. The basic notions of semantic theory: reference, quantification, scope relations, compositionality, thematic relations, tense and time, etc. The role these notions play in grammars of natural languages. Properties of logical form and relationship with syntax.

0101(49226) V. Hacquard (FULL: Seats=15, Open=0, Waitlist=0) Books
TuTh...... 2:00pm- 3:15pm (LEF 1221)

LING419C Topics in Syntax: Towards a Unified Account of Syntactic Movment; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
Prerequisite: LING311. Click here for more information.

0101(49236) S. Malhotra (Seats=15, Open=4, Waitlist=0) Books
MW........ 3:00pm- 4:15pm (ARM 0101)

LING444 Child Language Acquisition; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
Prerequisite: LING311. Examines language acquisition in infancy and early childhood: the nature of children's linguistic representations and how these develop naturally. Role of (possible) innate linguistic structure and interaction of such structure with experience. Evaluation of methods and results of current and classic research leading to contemporary models of language development.

0101(49246) J. Lidz (Seats=20, Open=3, Waitlist=0) Books
TuTh...... 9:30am-10:45am (SQH 1123)

LING499 (PermReq) Directed Studies in Linguistics; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.

LING499C Directed Studies in Linguistics: Seminar on Islands; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
Prerequisite: LING311. This class investigates what's wrong with this sentence (Which team do you wish that will beat Duke?) and other similar anomalies known as syntactic 'islands'. Students learn to understand and scutinize theoretical literature in the syntax, semantics and processing of islands and will design, conduct, and analyze data from their own experimental study.

0101(49271) J. Jurka (Seats=10, Open=1, Waitlist=0) Books
TuTh......11:00am-12:15pm (MMH 3418)

LING499H (PermReq) Directed Studies in Linguistics; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.

LING610 Syntactic Theory; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD.
Prerequisite: LING 312. Intensive introduction to transformational syntax.

0101(49294) H. Lasnik (Seats=15, Open=5, Waitlist=0) Books
Tu........ 2:00pm- 5:00pm (ARM 0102)

Th........11:00am-12:00pm (LEF 1222) Dis

LING620 Phonological Theory; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD.
Prerequisite: LING 322. Topics in current phonological theory, as they relate to data from various languages. Segmental and prosodic analysis. Autosegmental theory, metrical theory, etc.

0101(49304) W. Idsardi (Seats=15, Open=9, Waitlist=0) Books
TuTh...... 9:30am-11:00am (ARM 0121)

LING640 Psycholinguistics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD.
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Core graduate course in psycholinguistics, covering leading theoretical approaches and experimental methods in language acquisition, language processing, and neurolinguistics.

0101(49314) C. Phillips (Seats=20, Open=6, Waitlist=0) Books
MW........12:00pm- 1:30pm (SKN 1115)

LING660 Introduction to Semantics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD.
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Basic concepts and methods of contemporary semantic theory including basic set theory, elementary propositional and predicate calculus, the structure of predicates and propositions, quantification binding. Prepares students for study of more advanced topics in semantics.

0101(49324) P. Pietroski (Seats=15, Open=5, Waitlist=0) Books
MW........10:00am-11:30am (PLS 1168)

LING689 Independent Study; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.

LING689C Independent Study: Seminar in Semantics; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD.

0101(49348) A. Williams (Seats=15, Open=15, Waitlist=0) Books
Th........ 3:00pm- 5:30pm (ARM 0101)

LING698 Directed Study: Seminar; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD.

0101(49368) H. Lasnik (Seats=10, Open=10, Waitlist=0) Books
F......... 2:00pm- 4:00pm (MMH 1304)

LING723 Computational Linguistics I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD.
Prerequisite: CMSC421 or equivalent; or permission of instructor. Also offered as CMSC723. Not open to students who have completed LING645. Formerly LING645. Fundamental methods in natural language processing. Topics include: finite-state methods, context-free and extended context-free models of syntax; parsing and semantic interpretation; n-gram and Hidden Markov models, part-of-speech tagging; natural language applications such as machine translation, automatic summarization, and question answering.

0101(49378) J. Lin (Seats=40, Open=18, Waitlist=0) Books
W......... 4:00pm- 6:30pm (CSI 2107)

LING798 (PermReq) Research Papers in Linguistics; (1-6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.

LING799 Master's Thesis Research; (1-6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.

LING819 Seminar in Syntactic Theory; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD.

0101(49416) J. Uriagereka (Seats=15, Open=10, Waitlist=0) Books
W......... 3:00pm- 6:00pm (LEF 1221)

LING848 Seminar in Computational Linguistics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD.

0101(49426) P. Resnik (Seats=15, Open=11, Waitlist=0) Books
W......... 1:30pm- 4:00pm (MMH 1108B)

LING879 Seminar in Semantics: Seminar in Semantics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD.

0101(49436) A. Williams (Seats=15, Open=10, Waitlist=0) Books
Th........ 3:00pm- 5:30pm (Arranged)

LING889 Directed Research; (1-8 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.

LING895 Doctoral Research Paper; (6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.

LING896 Research Paper in Minor Area; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
Prerequisite: LING 895. This course is designed to strengthen the students' ability to do research in a minor area of expertise, and to help them create a publishable piece. In addition, the course constitutes part of a set of requirements to advance to doctoral candidacy.

LING898 Pre-Candidacy Research; (1-8 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.

LING899 (PermReq) Doctoral Dissertation Research; (6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.

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