Includes cross-linguistic comparisons and their contribution to understanding language use. 370 Language Typology and Universals. Survey of the languages of the world with major attention to topics such as universals, linguistic typology, areal linguistics, genetic relationship, sub-grouping, decipherment, ethnohistory. 373 Topics in Linguistics. Selected topics in linguistics, such as writing systems, women and language, text grammars, language universals, sociolinguistics.
Topics vary with instructor.
May be repeated. 430 Language and Culture. The relationship of language as a communication system to the culture transmitted by it. Principal problems in the interrelations of language and nonlinguistic human behavior. Intro crse in linguis or cons inst.