Fall Semester 2000 through Summer Semester 2002
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Professors: Earl R. Anderson, Bruce A. Beatie, William S. Chisholm, John A.C. Greppin, Edward R. Haymes, Laura Martin, Howard A. Mims, Nicholas J. Moutafakis, George Ray, Art Schwartz, Anita K. Stoll, Jane Zaharias; Professor Emeritus: Louis T. Milic; Associate Professors: Ted Lardner, Jeffrey P. Williams; Assistant Professors: Barbara Hoffman, Antonio Medina-Rivers, Gabriella Olivares-Cuhat; Coordinator of ESL: Judith Charlick.

Linguistics, available as a major (33 credits) and a minor (18 credits) is based on courses in Anthropology, Education, English, Modern Languages, Philosophy, and Speech and Hearing. For details about the program, contact John Greppin, FT 1002, 687-3967 or the English Department (Rhodes Tower 1815; phone 687-3951) or the Anthropology Department (CB 1110; phone 687-2386).

LIN 260 Language, Society, and Culture (3-0-3). Interdisciplinary introduction to language in its social and cultural contexts. Cross-listed with ANT 260, ENG 260. Elective course in the Linguistics major and minor. Social Science. Return to top

LIN 310 Traditional Grammar (2 or 4 credits). Survey of traditional grammar, its history and present use in the schools. Cross-listed with ENG 310. Return to top

LIN 311 Elements of Linguistics (4-0-4). Survey of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics with reference to modern English. Cross-listed with ENG 311. Return to top

LIN 312 Modern English Grammar (4-0-4). Systematic description of English sentences according to structuralist and transformational-generative principles. Cross-listed with ENG 312. Return to top

LIN 313 Studies in Linguistics (2 to 4 credits). Core course in a mainstream linguistic topic, such as American English dialects, historical linguistics, history of the English language, semantics, or socio-linguistics. May be repeated with change of topic. Cross-listed with ENG 313, with ANT 344 Sociolinguistics, and with courses in other departments as appropriate. Return to top

LIN 314 Applied Linguistics (2 to 4 credits). Course in the professional application of linguistics, such as language diversity and teaching English, Lexicography, or English as a Second Language. May be repeated with change of topic. Cross-listed with ENG 314. Return to top

LIN 315 Phonetics (3 to 4 credits). Principles of phonetics studied with reference variously to American English, French, Spanish, or German. Cross-listings include FRN 315 French Phonetics, SPN 315 Spanish Phonetics, and GER 415 Phonetics and Contrastive Structures. Return to top

LIN 318 Language Analysis (2 to 4 credits). Prerequisite: Introductory linguistics course or strong background in a foreign language. Topics may include Sanskrit, Hittite, Classical Armenian, Old English, Old Norse, or Gothic, studied with an emphasis on grammar and linguistic issues. May be repeated as the continuing study of one language, or with a change of topic. A two-semester sequence of one language (such as Sanskrit I and II), or a semester of Old English followed by a semester of Old Norse or Gothic, may satisfy the Arts and Sciences foreign language requirement. Students who take Sanskrit I and II (four credits each) may take second year Sanskrit III and IV (two credits each). Linguistics course; Classical and Medieval Studies course (with appropriate language). Cross-listed with ENG 318 and MLA 310. Return to top

LIN 340 Phonology (4-0-4). Introduction to the scientific study of the sound systems of the world's living languages. Includes discussion of the basics of phonetic transcription and phonemic analysis and the development of formal models in phonology. Topics include articulatory and acoustic phonetics, the phoneme, phonological rules and representations, nonlinear models, harmony processes, prosodic morphology, and sound symbolism. Cross-listed with ANT 340. Return to top

LIN 341 Morphology and Syntax (4-0-4). Introduction to the description and analysis of word formation processes and sentence structure from a crosslinguistic perspective. Instruction in basic morphemic analysis and constituent testing using data drawn from languages outside the Indo-European family. Also includes an introduction to typological analysis in the study of morpho-syntax. Cross-listed with ANT 341. Return to top

LIN 342 Languages in Contact (4-0-4). Introduction to the study of linguistic responses to culture contact in a variety of socio-historical contexts. Topics include language and trade, language and colonialism, pidgins and pidginization, creoles and creolization, dialect contact, and the formation of koines. Cross-listed with ANT 342. Return to top

LIN 438 Seminar in Urban Language Patterns (4-0-4). Study of certain aspects of urban language patterns with special attention to linguistic features of those persons described as culturally different; investigation and discussion of literature on oral language variations as related to listener attitudes, social and economic consequences, school success, and questions concerning approaches to the problem of speech and language specialists; analysis and evaluation of language samples. Cross-listed with SPH 438. African-American Experience. Return to top

LIN 480 Special Topic in Linguistics (2 to 4 credits). Prerequisite: Introductory Linguistics course or permission of instructor. Focus on an advanced linguistic topic such as lexicography, contrastive linguistic systems, or semantics. Return to top

LIN 490 Linguistic Internship (1 to 2 credits). Prerequisites: Introductory Linguistics course and permission of the faculty anchor and field supervisor. Internships are available in three fields: Teaching Adult English as a Second Language, Computer-Assisted Accent Reduction, and Lexicography. Return to top

LIN 496 Independent Study in Linguistics (1 to 3 credits). Prerequisites: Linguistics major, senior standing, completion of at least 2 Linguistics core courses, and permission of supervising professor and Linguistics Director. Specialized research project of particular interest to the student. May be repeated, but no more than four credits count toward the Linguistics major. Return to top