LIN 316 - Language Variation

The topic of this course is linguistic typology, in which the languages of the world are classified in terms of the grammatical features that they have in common. This course will focus primarily on morphological and syntactic typology, surveying the types of patterns that are found across the languages of the world. Each student will focus on a particular language or language family for their assignments.

Prerequisite(s): LIN 312 and LIN 313.
Co-requisite(s):
Credits: 3

Course Typically Offered: Spring
Course Type: Linguistics

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