Teaching

Instructors: Qi Cheng (W25), Laura McGarrity (S25). Language as the fundamental characteristic of the human species; diversity and complexity of human languages; phonological and grammatical analysis; dimensions of language use; and language acquisition and historical language change.

Instructor: Jesse Harris. Survey of most important theoretical and descriptive claims about nature of meaning.

Instructor: Stefan Keine. Introduction to theory and methods of linguistics: universal properties of human language; phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic structures and analysis; nature and form of grammar.

Instructor: Harold Torrence. Summary for general undergraduates of what is known about human language; biological basis of language, scientific study of language and human cognition; uniqueness of human language, its structure, universality, its diversity; language in social and cultural setting; language in relation to other aspects of human inquiry and knowledge.