Linguistics Courses
Regular Offerings
Language Sciences offers courses with the subject heading Linguistics. The following courses have been offered on a regular basis in recent years. Please note that future course offerings may vary: see the Upcoming Course Schedule for current and future schedules by semester.
Elementary courses
- Ling 101/301: Human Language/Introduction to Linguistics
- Ling 213: Topics in Sociolinguistics (can be repeated for credit)
Sample topics:
-Language Emergence
-Inventing Languages
-Things You Can’t Say
-Dialect
-Deaf Culture
-Language Socialization - Ling 237: Language in Wisconsin
Intermediate courses
- Ling 303: Historical Linguistics
- Ling 310: Phonology
- Ling 322: Morphology
- Ling 330: Syntax
- Ling 340: Semantics
- Ling 371: Survey of North American Indian Languages
- Ling 373: Topics in Linguistics (can be repeated for credit)
Sample topics:
-Morphosyntax
-Coding for Linguistics
-Quantitative Methods for Linguists 1
-Topics in the Child Acquisition of Indigenous Languages
-Sociophonetics
-Historical Sociolinguistics - Ling 375: Sign Language Linguistics
Advanced courses
- Ling 510: Phonological Theories
- Ling 522: Advanced Morphology
- Ling 530: Syntactic Theories
- Ling 571: Structure of a Language (can be repeated for credit with different languages. Recent languages: SENĆOŦEN, Menominee, Irish, Northern East Cree)
- Ling 690: Capstone in Linguistics
Topic varies with instructor, recent examples:
-Topics in Menominee Grammar
-Linguistic Relativity
-Metalinguistics
-Laryngeal Realism
-Language Endangerment: Responses to a Worldwide Crisis - Ling 800: Research Methods and Materials
- Ling 977: Seminar (can be repeated for credit)
Seminar topics vary each semester. Some sample recent topics include:
-Speech Sounds in Language Contact
-Algonquian Derivational Morphology
-Language Endangerment, Documentation, & Revitalization
-Stylistic Variation
-Laryngeal Realism
-Event-Feature-Precedence Phonology
