With lab. Introduction to the investigation of meaning from a linguistic, philosophical, and psychological point of view. How do words get their meanings, and how do we combine simple meanings to create complex ones? How can new meanings be created on the spot? What does context contribute to meaning? How are meanings connected to syntactic structure and intonation? Prerequisite: LINGUIST 201 and 401.

With lab. Introduction to the investigation of meaning from a linguistic, philosophical, and psychological point of view. How do words get their meanings, and how do we combine simple meanings to create complex ones? How can new meanings be created on the spot? What does context contribute to meaning? How are meanings connected to syntactic structure and intonation? Prerequisite: LINGUIST 201 and 401.

Survey of goals, methods, and results of research into the history and prehistory of languages. Focus on language variation and change, comparative method and linguistic reconstruction, linguistic classification and models of linguistic change. Examples drawn primarily from the Indo-European language family. Course will be of interest to students of anthropology, sociology, classics, and modern languages. Prerequisite: LINGUIST 201.

This course investigates the common syntactic properties underlying human languages. This is done by comparing similar linguistic structures in a variety of related languages and teasing apart the phenomena that seem constant from the parts that seem to vary. This process also showcases how to construct and evaluate theories of syntactic phenomena. Prerequisite: Linguistics 401 or 401H.

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