Linguistics

Embark on a global expedition to discover how the world’s 7,000+ languages uniquely organize human thought, moving far beyond familiar Western structures to explore how different cultures track truth, time, and social relationships. Instead of
traditional lectures, you will act as a linguistic detective in a hands-on laboratory, using professional digital tools and decoding techniques to crack the grammatical puzzles of diverse languages from every continent. The course concludes not with an exam, but with a creative project where you will design your own original constructed language (a "Conlang") and compile a professional "Field Guide" to justify its architecture. 

This course will lead students through building corpora, annotation, text-mining, quantitative analysis and visualization techniques using text data from English, various languages of Asia, the Pacific and beyond. It will provide the theoretical foundation to understand how corpora can answer research questions, as well as guided practice with computational skills. 

This course explores the ways in which the usage and perception of Korean varies both within and across individuals. Our exploration of this variation (sociolinguistics) includes factors such as regional origin, age, gender, race, and native status. We also look at many examples of real linguistic studies. 

If you are a native speaker of Korean, please be aware that this class includes a group project, and that many students in the class will be non-native speakers of Korean. If you do not want to work together with non-native speakers, please do not enroll in this class. If you are a non-native speaker of Korean: it is recommended that you only enroll in this class if you have had the equivalent of at least 2 years of college-level Korean.  

Some assignments in this class require you to interact with native Korean speakers (e.g. collecting survey data), and our discussion of various linguistic phenomena will assume that you already have a basic understanding of how the language works. If your Korean proficiency level prevents you from completing the required assignments or understanding the lecture, your grade will suffer. 

This course provides the knowledge and language skills needed to analyze literary texts: enunciative approach (subjectivity, modalities), relationship to reality (modes of reference), use of indicative tenses (values and uses).

This course introduces general linguistics and its theoretical and empirical framework. It studies two areas, morphology and syntax, and examines the different linguistic systems of the world's languages, with particular attention to their structural similarities and differences.

The course introduces students to the analysis of spoken discourse, drawing on conversation analysis, Goffman's micro-sociology, and linguistic ethnography. Students learn how these perspectives help us to understand different aspects of talk-in-interaction, see where they overlap, and put them to use in the analysis of empirical data.     

This course is the section tutorial to complement the LING 119 GENERAL LINGUISTICS lecture course. The tutorial covers methods of morphological and syntactic analysis and puts into practice the concepts learned in the lecture course. To do this, students work on small linguistic data corpora to learn about simple linguistic analysis and how to formulate hypotheses, as well as decode annotated linguistic data from various languages to understand the structural specificities of a language.

This course examines theoretical approaches, empirical methods and findings in second language acquisition research. Topics include features of language learners and their learning processes (e.g., age, crosslinguistic influences), individual influences on language development (e.g., motivation, aptitude) and social dimensions (e.g., identity, community). 

This course covers fundamental concepts such as cohesion and coherence, relevance, anaphora and cataphora, isotopy, sentence, and utterance. It also distinguishes between types of discourse, text genres, styles, and tones, as well as several types of textual configurations (description, narration, argumentation, etc.).

This course examines basic concepts in modern linguistics relating to sentence structure and how meaning is encoded.