Cross-linguistic Perspectives

COGS-6560

This course will explore the different strategies used by different languages to fulfill the same needs of human communication. A sampling of topics: quickly learning the basics of a new language using linguistic principles; cross-linguistic knowledge elicitation and engineering; principles of generative grammar; space, time, agency, and other linguistic phenomena viewed cross-linguistically.Â

3 credits
Prereqs:
none

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Natural Languages/a Cross-linguistic Perspective (3c)
  • Marjorie McShane
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Natural Languages/a Cross-linguistic Perspective (3c)
  • Marjorie McShane
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