This course aims to familiarize the student with some of the leading theories in syntax. Fulfills the QDS distributive. Offered alternate years. Fulfills the PHR distributive. Offered alternate years.
Discourse analysis examines linguistic structures that exist beyond the sentence level.
Special attention is given to the global properties of connected speech and writing, including mechanisms of coherence and cohesion. Other topics include narrative structures, new and old information, topicalization, foregrounding and backgrounding, and the methods of conversation analysis and variation analysis Fulfills the SOC distributive. Offered alternate years. By doing so, one can determine both universal features of language and limits to the ways in which languages can differ. Therefore, typology provides crucial insights into the human capacity for language.