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LING   200 INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF  Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * FOUNDATION COURSE: GROUP II
An introduction of the scientific study of language, the methods of
linguistic prehistory, the language families of the world, and the
interrelationships of language and thought.
Also offered as Anth 200.
A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 MWF     10:00AM-10:50AM SH*309   Gildea, Spike

LING   300 LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS                      Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * FOUNDATION COURSE: GROUP II
English and a selection of other languages as objects of scientific
analysis; phonological structure, morphology and syntax, semantic
structure, techniques of linguistic analysis.
Also offered as Anth 300.
A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM SH*207B  Pulju, Timothy

LING   340 THEORY & METHODS OF TEACHING ESL AND FOR Credits 3.00  Spring 97
The course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of
teaching a second language.  The course examines the process of
language-learning from social, psychological, and linguistic
perspectives and also covers some commonly used teaching "methods" such
as:  The Audiolingual Method, Situational Language Teaching, The Natural
Approach, and TPR.
Also offered as Ling 540.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM RH*109   Barlow, Michael

LING   345 LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE OF KOREAN           Credits 3.00  Spring 97
This course focuses on Korean grammar including Korean syntax,
morphology, phonology, semantics and discourse theory.  Students should
be relatively proficient in Korean.
Prereq- Kore 201/202
Also offered as Kore 345.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM RH*319   Yang, Insun

LING   353 PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE                   Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Philosophical investigation of relations among language, thought, and
reality.  Specific topics include such notions as analyticity,
meaning, reference, and speech act.
Prereq- Two courses in linguistics or philosophy.
Also offered as Phil 353.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM RH*239   Margolis, Eric

LING   394 STRUCTURE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE            Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Introduction to modern English grammar, phonology, and semantics.
Also offered as Engl 394.
001 TTH     02:30PM-03:50PM PL*118   Polanyi, Livia

LING   402 SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS                     Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of semantic categories and their formal expression in
morphological, syntactic, and lexical units and patterns.
Also offered as Anth 402.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM RH*319   Davis, Philip

LING   405 TOPICS IN LANGUAGE CHANGE: DIACHRONIC TY Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Current research on the nature of diachronic processes and their
implications for linguistic theory.  Topic changes from year to year
and may include diachronic typology, issues in genetic classification,
grammaticalization, syntactic change, analogical change, etc.
May be repeated for credit.
Prereq- Ling 305 or equivalent.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM TBA      Kemmer, Suzanne

LING   408 FIELD TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS            Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Continuation of Ling 407.
Also offered as Anth 408.
001 TBA     TBA                      Davis, Philip

LING   409 SPECIAL TOPICS: SEMINAR ON GRAMMATICALIZ Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Topic changes from year to year.  May be repeated for credit.
Prereq- Ling 300 or permission of instructor.
001 MW      02:00PM-03:20PM RH*239   Copeland, James

LING   410 RHETORIC                                 Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Overview of classical series of rhetoric and followed by more intensive
dicussions both of contemporary theories and applications in a wide
variety of disciplines.
Also offered as Anth 412.
001 TTH     10:50AM-12:05PM PL*117   Tyler, Stephen

LING   411 NEUROLINGUISTICS:                        Credits 3.00  Spring 97
           * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Language and the Brain.  Organization of the brain, localization of
speech, language, and conceptional functions; hemispheric dominance;
pathologies of speech and language associated with brain damage.
Prereq- Ling 300 or Ling 306 or permission of instructor.
001 MWF     09:00AM-09:50AM RH*239   Lamb, Sydney

LING   416 LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS & TYPOLOGY           Credits 3.00  Spring 97
See Comp 416.
001 TTH     09:25AM-10:40AM SH*352   Kemmer, Suzanne

LING   425 DISCOURSE, SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS      Credits 3.00  Spring 97
In this course we will investigate the relationship between the
interpretation of utterances (semantics) and the context in which they
are used (pragmatics) by developing an understanding of how the
intentions of the speaker/writer as interpreted by the hearer/reader
influences the meaning assigned to an utterance on a given occasion.
The contribution to discourse of both socially and linguistically
context will be convered.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM          Polanyi, Livia

LING   437 A HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS                 Credits 3.00  Spring 97
Linguistic theories from the book of "Genesis", the Pre-Socratics,
Plato, Aristotle, the Alexandrians, the Stoics, the Modistae, the
German Romantics, the Neo-Grammarians down to de Saussure.  Readings
will be from original sources only.
001 W       06:30PM-09:00PM RH*320   Mitchell, Douglas

LING   481 INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits 1.00  Spring 97
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA

LING   482 HONORS PROJECT                           Credits 1.00  Spring 97
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA

LING   500 LINGUISTIC ANALYIS                       Credits 3.00  Spring 97
See Ling 300.
001 MWF     11:00AM-11:50AM SH*207B  Pulju, Timothy

LING   502 SEM IN SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS              Credits 3.00  Spring 97
See Ling 402.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM RH*319   Davis, Philip

LING   504 TOPICS IN LANGUAGE CHANGE: DIACHRONIC TY Credits 3.00  Spring 97
See Ling 405.
001 TTH     01:00PM-02:20PM TBA      Kemmer, Suzanne

LING   508 FIELD TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS            Credits 1.00  Spring 97
Continuation of Ling 507.
001 TBA     TBA                      Davis, Philip

LING   540 THEORY AND METHODS OF  TEACHING ESL & FO Credits 3.00  Spring 97
See Ling 340.
001 MWF     01:00PM-01:50PM RH*109   Barlow, Michael

LING   550 DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM                  Credits 1.00  Spring 97
Faculty, graduate students, and invited guests meet weekly to present
reports on current research or to discuss current issues in linguistics
and semiotics.
001 TH      04:00PM-05:30PM RH*239   Barlow, Michael

LING   555 SEM: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS              Credits 3.00  Spring 97
001 MW      03:30PM-04:50PM RH*239   Gildea, Spike

LING   582 GRADUATE RESEARCH                        Credits 1.00  Spring 97
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA

LING   584 GRADUATE RESEARCH                        Credits 1.00  Spring 97
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA

LING   586 GRADUATE RESEARCH                        Credits 1.00  Spring 97
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA

LING   588 GRADUATE RESEARCH                        Credits 1.00  Spring 97
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA

LING   591 TEACHING LINGUISTICS                     Credits 1.00  Spring 97
001 TBA     TBA                      Copeland, James

LING   800 GRADUATE RESEARCH                        Credits 3.00  Spring 97
001 TBA     TBA                      TBA

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