Course of Linguistic Analysis

Three months is all that you need to learn the the technique for reducing languages to writing. You will earn training to strategize, organize, and utilize linguistic data. In addition, you will learn to focus on producing a grammatical and/or a phonological sketch of any spoken language around the planet. No prior field experience is required, no previous cross-cultural experience is required. All scholars are welcome, for no prerequisite is required.

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where?

From anywhere. The course is entirely online

how long?

3 months; 2 times a week; 1 hour each meeting

how much?

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instructor

All our faculty members have a Ph.D. in linguistics

This course provides a theoretical and practical introduction to the broad range of human speech sounds that are found in the languages of the world. Through practice inside and outside of the classroom, students will learn to recognize and produce the various sounds, transcribe them with phonetic symbols, and describe how they are produced.

Theory of language sound systems, principles of analysis of sound systems, and principles of forming an orthography. Opportunity will be given to apply these principles to a wide range of natural language data.

This course deals with theories of grammar and principles of language analysis: morphology, syntax, stems, words, phrases and sentences. Problem solving with data from a variety of languages is a major part of the course.

This course explores the rich variety of syntactic and semantic structures found in human language, deepening the students’ understanding of syntactic phenomena addressed in the prerequisite course

The topics are examined within the framework of a current theory of Syntax.

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