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LING 101 Introduction to Linguistics: Words, Sentences, and Meaning Units: 3.00
An introduction to the linguistic study of language, focusing on the analysis of words (morphology), sentences (syntax), and meaning (semantics and pragmatics). We investigate patterns of similarity and difference across the languages of the world, the cognitive representation of linguistic knowledge, and social aspects of language use.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 72 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite None.
Exclusion LING 100/6.0.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe patterns involving words, sentences, and meaning in human languages, using standard linguistic terminology.
- Analyze data sets involving words, sentences, and meaning by applying the tools of generative linguistics.
- Compare similar linguistic phenomena across different languages.
- Relate linguistic phenomena involving words, sentences, or meaning to questions relating to language variation, and social aspects of language use.
- Identify predictions made by a particular structural analysis of language, and evaluate those predictions against further data.