Graduate Linguistics Courses (LING)
(from the UO Bulletin)
LING 411/511 Phonetics (4)
The articulatory and acoustic basis for the classification and description of speech sounds; relevance of this phonetic base to phonological analysis. Pre- or coreq: LING 290.
LING 415/515 Semantics (4)
Survey of the fundamentals of semantic theory from traditional formal logic to modern cognitive approaches. Additional coverage of fundamental notions in pragmatics. Prereq: LING 290 or equivalent.
LING 423/523 Fieldwork Methods and Ethics (4)
Qualitative methodology in cross-cultural fieldwork from an interdisciplinary perspective. Ethics and techniques in preparation for the field, field relations, leaving the field.
LT 428/528 Teaching English Culture and Literature (4)
Issues in teaching English as a global language. Interaction between language and culture. Application to teaching of literature. Teaching focus: British and North American literature.
LING 432/532 Pathology of Language (4)
Examines the language symptoms of aphasia, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, and other neurological and psychiatric conditions from a neurolinguistic perspective. Prereq: LING 290 or equivalent.
LING 435/535 Morphology and Syntax (4)
Methods of determining the morphological and syntactic patterns of natural language data, with introduction to tyypological and theoretical issues in morphology. Prereq: LING 290 or equivalent.
LING 440/540 Linguistic Principles and Second-Language Learning (4)
Introduction to how languages are learned in school contexts; underlying human-language principles. Special attention to learning issues that classroom teachers need to address. Prereq: instructor's consent. Students cannot receive credit for both LING 440/540 and 444/544.
LT 441/541 Teaching English Pronunciation (4)
Introduction to English phonetics and phonology, methods for teaching pronuncation, lesson plan development, and practice teaching.
LING 44/544 Second-Language Acquisition (4)
Introduction to cognitive and social processes of acquiring second languages. Prereq: LING 290. Students cannot receive credit for both LING 440/540 and 444/544.
LT 445/545 Second-Language Teaching (4)
Approaches and methods of teaching second languages. Theoretical principles of language teaching; pedagogical principles for second-language abilities in speaking, listening, reading, and composition. Prereq: LING 444/544.
LT 446/546 Second-Language Teaching Practice (4)
Intensive workshop and practice in teaching instruction. Practical methods for developing skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and testing second languages. Prereq: LING 445/545.
LT 448/548 Curriculum and Materials Development (4)
Introduction to the elemnts of curriculum design and related materials development. Rational basis for the development and implementation of language curriculum. Practical applcation. Prereq: LT 446/546 or equivalent.
LT 449/549 Testing and Assessment (4)
Principles and types of language testing, particualrly classsroom testing. Test design and integration into curriculum. Test planning for purpose, age group, and teching situation. Prereq: LT 448/548 or equivalent.
LING 450/550 Introduction to Phonology (4)
Study of sound systems in language. Phonemic contrasts, allophonic variation, and complementary distribution in relation to lexical coding of words, sound production, and sound perception. Prereq: LING 411/511 or equivalent.
LING 451/551 Functional Syntax I (4)
Syntax within grammar; its interaction with lexical meaning, propositional semantics, and discourse pragmatics; syntactic structure; case roles; word order; grammatical morphology; tense, aspect, modality, and negation; definiteness and referentiality. Prereq: LING 435/535.
LING 452/552 Functional Syntax II (4)
Complex syntactic structures and their discourse function; embedded, coordinate, and subordinate clauses; nondeclarative speech acts, topicalization, contrast, and focusing; transitivization and detransitivization. Data from various languages. Prereq: LING 451/551.
LING 460/560 Historical and Comparative Linguistics (4)
Principles of language change and the methods of comparative and internal reconstruction; typological change in phonology, morphology, and syntax; language families and protolanguages. Prereq: LING 450/550, 451/551.
LING 490/590 Sociolinguistics (4)
Language in relation to social and interpersonal interaction. Topics may include dialect geography, social and ethnic dialects, language contact, bilingualism and multilingualism, pidgins and creoles, or conversational analysis. Prereq: LING 450/550.
LING 494/594 English Grammar (4)
Survey of grammatical, syntactic, and morphological structures of English in terms of semantic and funcitonal criteria.
LING 495/595 Language and Gender (4)
An objective investigation of differences between women's and men's use of language on all linguistic levels, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, and discourse. Prereq: LING 290 or equivalent.
LING/LT 407/507 Seminar: [Topic] (1-5R)
Topics include history of linguistics, language contact, morphology, discourse pragmatics, conversational analysis, acoustic phonetics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, applied linguistics.
LING 408/508 Workshop: [Topic] (1-21R)
LING/LT 409 Supervised Tutoring (1-21R)
LING/LT 410/510 Experimental Course: [Topic] (1-5R)
Recent topics are Classical Tibetan, English Phonetics and Phonology, First-Language Acquisition, Old Irish.
LING 503 Thesis (1-16R)
Individual research on M.A. thesis supervised by a faculty member. Prereq: instructor's consent.
LING 601 Research: [Topic] (1-16R)
Individual research on a specific topic supervised by a faculty member. Prereq: instructor's consent.
LING 602 Supervised College Teaching (1-5R)
LING 603 Dissertation (1-16R)
Individual work on Ph.D. dissertation supervised by a faculty member.
LING/LT 605 Reading and Conference: [Topic] (1-16R)
Individual reading and bibliographic work supervised by a faculty member. Prereq: instructor's consent.
LING 606 Field Studies: [Topic] (1-16R)
LING/LT 607 Seminar: [Topic] (1-5R)
Topics include syntax, semantics, discourse pragmatics, stylistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language contact, pidgins and creoles, first- or second-language acquisition, language and culture. Prereq: LING 450/550, 452/552.
LING/LT 608 Workshop: [Topic] (1-16R)
LING 609 Practicum (3)
Prereq: LT 445/545 or equivalent.
LT 609 Supervised Tutoring (1-4R)
LT/LING 610 Experimental Course: [Topic] (1-5R)
LT 611 Terminal Project (1-16R)
Two-term course reuired to complete an M.A. with language teaching speicalization. Individual projects. Weekly group sessions provide guidance.
LING 614 Linguistic Theory: Phonology (4)
Detailed investigation of phonological theory. Topics may include sound systems and their typology, morphophonology, and the acquisition of phonological structures. Prereq: LING 450/550.
LING 615 Linguistic Theory: Syntax (4)
Issues in syntactic theory. Topics may include universals of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse function and their relation to syntax, syntactic typology and universals, formal models in syntactic description. Prereq: LING 452/552.
LING 616 Linguistic Theory: Semantics (4)
Detailed investigation of issues in semantic and pragmatic theory. Topics may include universals of lexical semantics and discourse pragmatics and their interaction. Prereq: LING 452/552.
LING 617, 618, 619 Field Methods I,II,III (5,5,5)
Supervised linguistics fieldwork with language informants, both in and out of class. Application of language universals to the elicitation, analysis, and evaluation of data from particular languages; the writing of phonological, lexical, and grammatical descriptions; sentence versus text elicitation. Sequence. Prereq: LING 450/550, 452/552.
LING 621 Empirical Methods in Linguistics (4)
Empirical quantified methods of data collection and analysis; statistical evaluation of results. Data derived from discourse, conversation, psycholinguistics, first- and second-language acquisition, speech pathology, speech and writing deficiencies. Prereq: LING 450/550, 452/552.
LING 622 Discourse Analysis (4)
Language beyond the sentence level; elicitation and analysis of oral and written texts; quantitative text analysis. Information structure of discourse, discourse and syntax, conversational analysis, discourse pragmatics, discourse processing. Prereq: LING 452/552.
LING 644 Advanced Second-Language Acquisition (4)
Characterization of major theoretical frameworks from which to view second language-acquisition issues and research paradigms associated with each framework: universal grammar, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic. Prereq: LING 444/544.
LING 660 Historical Syntax (4)
Topics in the study of syntactic change. Prereq: LING 452/552, LING 460/560 or equivalent.
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