In-class discussion will draw on U.S. and international ethnographic examples. Seminar Topics in Advanced Archeological Research. A seminar intended for graduate students in archeology, which will cover a wide range of topics in advanced research techniques. Introduction to Linguistics. An introduction to the major structural principles upon which all human languages appear to be organized.
Attention is also devoted to some of the relations between the system and the culture.
An inquiry into some of the major ways that language and writing convey extralinguistic information serving to define and direct social relationships and values. History of the English Language. A consideration of the major sources of change in the English language historically as well as some of the internal and external catalysts for the process. Theory and Formulation of Transformational Grammars. A course designed to explore the theory that, despite difference in overt structure and differences resulting from the separation in time, the grammars of various languages share many traits, probably universal, in common.