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UCSD Linguistics Courses, Spring 2002

(See Fall 2001 or Winter 2002 courses.)

This schedule is subject to change without notice.

Undergraduate Courses (See all undergrad courses.)

Course	Description	Comments
LIGN 8 Languages and Cultures of America M. Polinsky	Language in American culture and society. Standard and non-standard English in school, media, pop-culture, politics; bilingualism and education; cultural perception of language issues over time; languages and cultures in the 'melting pot', including Native American, Hispanic, African-American, Deaf.	Satisfies the Muir College cultural diversity requirement and the Revelle College American Culture requirement.
LIGN 112 Heritage Languages: Tagalog J. Nacu	Designed for students with a background in Tagalog seeking to improve their oral and written expression. Emphasis is on language functions needed for successful oral communication, basic grammatical structures, reading, writing, and culture. The readings will include current newspapers and fiction.	Prerequisite: Some speaking ability in Tagalog or consent of instructor.
LIGN 113 Heritage Western Armenian A. Tatoulian	Designed for students with a background in Armenian seeking to improve their oral and written expression. Emphasis is on language functions needed for successful oral communication, basic grammatical structures, reading, writing, and culture.	Some speaking ability in Armenian or consent of instructor.
LIGN 120 Morphology S. Rose	How do some languages express with one word complex meanings that English needs several words to express? Discovery of underlying principles of word formation through problem-solving and analysis of data from a wide variety of languages.	Prerequisite: LIGN 101. Required for majors.
LIGN 130 Semantics C. Barker	Introduction to the formal study of meaning. The meanings of words and phrases have an intricate internal structure that is both logical and intuitive. How, precisely, do words mean what they do in isolation and in context?	Prerequisite: LIGN 101. Required for majors.
LIGN 144 Discourse Analysis: American Sign Language Poetry and Performing Arts	A discourse-centered examination of ASL verbal arts: rhyme, meter, rhythm, handedness, non-manual signals and spatial mapping; creation of scene and mood; properties of character, dialogue, narration and voice; cultural tropes; poetic constructions in everyday genres; transcription, body memory and performance.	Prerequisite: LISL 1C/1CX or consent of instructor.
LIGN 150 Historical Linguistics R. Langacker	Language is constantly changing. This course investigates the nature of language change, how to determine a language's history, its relationship to other languages, and the search for common ancestors or 'proto-language'.	Prerequisite: LIGN 101. Elective for majors.
LIGN 169 Principles of Discourse and Dialog A. Kehler	The principles and mechanisms that underlie the production and interpretation of monologic discourse and conversational dialog. Reference, attention, and dynamic models of discourse state. Discourse coherence and structure. Turn-taking and speech acts inconversation. Computational models.	Prerequisite: LIGN 101 strongly recommended.
LIGN 170 Psycholinguistics	The study of models of language and of language acquisition from the point of view of modern linguistics and psychology. Basic experimental method as applied to language.	Prerequisite: LIGN 101. Particularly recommended for Cognition & Language majors. Satisfies psychological development requirement for HDP majors.
LIGN 177 Multilingualism M. Goldwasser	Official and minority languages, pidgins and creoles, language planning, bilingual education and literacy, code switching, and language attrition.	Prerequisite: LIGN 101. Particularly recommended for Language Studies majors or Language & Society majors. Satisfies psychological development requirement for HDP majors.

Graduate Courses (See all grad courses.)

Course	Description	Comments
LIGN 200 Research Forum (2)	A forum for discussion of current issues.	May be repeated for credit. (S/U only.)
LIGN 213 Issues in Phonology (4) E. Bakovic	Current theoretical issues.	May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
LIGN 221C Introduction to Grammatical Theory (4) R. Langacker	A basic introduction to the theory of Cognitive Grammar, which claims that lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a continuum of symbolic structures. Among the topics examined are semantic structure, grammatical classes, constructions, rules, clause structure, and reference-point phenomena.
LIGN 223 Current Issues in Principles in Parameters Theory (4)	This course examines recent developments in Principles and Parameters Theory. Topics include fundamental work that led to the Minimalist Program and more recent developments in this tradition.	May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
LIGN 241 Fieldwork (4) M. Polinsky	Fieldwork continuing the research of the previous quarter; student-directed elicitations on topics of interest.	Prerequisite: LIGN 240.
LIGN 246 Natural Language Processing in LISP A. Kehler	An introduction to the Common LISP programming language in the context of developing computational linguistics technology. Basic computational methods for morphological, syntactic, and semantic processing. Representing lexical and world knowledge. No previous programming experience is assumed.
LIGN 248 Morphology (4) F. Ackerman	Theories of word structure are examined and confronted with data from a variety of languages. Topics may include: the distinction between derivational and inflectional morphology, the morphology/phonology interface, and the morphology/syntax interface.	May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
LIGN 278 Language Contact and Codeswitching (4) A. Backus	The class will be dedicated to two goals. One is to give a general overview of language contact phenomena, including its links to such diverse fields as historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and modern theoretical linguistics. The second goal is to single out the phenomenon of codeswitching, which I have worked on for a little over a decade, and provide both a comprehensive overview of this sub-field, and in-depth analyses of selected aspects. Most of this will be based on my work on Turkish as an immigrant language in Western Europe, particularly in Holland.

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