Sociological and political importance of dictionaries. Cross-Language Equivalence 3 Focuses on the problem of expressing similar ideas and concepts in two or more languages by examining the linguistic factors that either inhibit or facilitate the transmission of a concept or idea from one language to another. Covers such topics as contrastive analysis and translation. LING 358 Linguistics and Language Arts 3 See EDST358 for course description. 3 Topics vary.
Emphasis is on writing papers of significant length on two separate topics in linguistics.
390 English Linguistics 3 See ENGL390 for course description. LING 401 Historical Linguistics 3 Languages of the world, Indo-European languages, the comparative method and linguistic evolution. Completion of two years of a college language course. Romance Language Lexicography 3 Introduction to the place of the dictionary in learning, teaching and translating languages. Information concerning the planning, compiling and evaluating of dictionaries written in French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.