LIN 295-01 - Special Topic: Linguistic Typology

4 credits (Fall)

This course is an introduction to the field of linguistic typology and the search for universals within language. We will look at the diverse range of phonological inventories, word order patterns, and lexical categories found within the world’s languages and also examine a variety of grammatical categories such as tense/aspect/modality, case, possession, and negation. Our goal is to determine which categories are found in all languages and which ones are more restricted in their distribution.

Prerequisite: LIN 114.
Instructor: Hansen