Prerequisite, Linguistics 150 or permission of instructor. Prerequisite, permission of instructor. Topics in the linguistic structure of old, middle, and early modern English in the light of theories of phonology, morphology, and syntax. Prerequisites, Linguistics 30 or 100 or permission of instructor. This course explores the phonological and morphological structure of selected Amerindian languages indigenous to the Americas.
Emphasis is on the linguistic analysis of original as well as published primary data.
Prerequisite, permission of instructor. Introductory linguistic description of Modern Mandarin Chinese. For students in linguistics with no knowledge of Chinese, and students of Chinese with no knowledge of linguistics. Examines language as a political issue in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emphasis placed on American and British politics but attention to one other national context as well.