The goal of this course is to equip students with the vocabulary and skills needed to engage in the analysis of linguistic data. The course will focus on one or more of the following topics: syntactic analysis (analysis of sentence structure), phonological analysis (analysis of linguistic sound systems) or semantic analysis (analysis of sentence interpretation). Other topics may be included. In each segment of the course, an appropriate formal framework will be presented, to be used as a tool of analysis. Using this tool, you will develop your ability to describe linguistic phenomena accurately, to make linguistic generalizations, and to propose accounts of these generalizations within a given theoretical framework.
