Any topic, if you have questions, talk to me. A preliminary report must be turned in on 3 November. Selecting a topic. The topic you choose must be related to some aspect in the analysis of human language. The goal is to give you experience with real language data.
Human language is a huge topic, and chosing a topic probably feels overwhelming.
It is overwhelming. That's a sort of rough version of the scientific method. The questions you ask are hypotheses. Go through your text books for ideas, both texts have bibliogrpahies at the end of the chatpers. You may find that it is interesting to work on a non-standard variety of a familiar language, or on the difference between spoken and written language, or on some unusual syntactic constructions you hear people use.