Students will work with current models of formal phonological analysis, including Optimality Theory and Exemplar Theory, as well as phonetically-informed approaches, to look at both synchronic and diachronic phenomena in the language. Data from both modern Spanish dialects and the historical evolution of the language is therefore considered, as is morphological and morphophonological change and variation. Taught in Spanish or English.
Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year.

Advanced-level description and formal linguistic analysis of major syntactic structures, particularly relating to Spanish and other Romance Languages. This includes, but is not limited to, the interfaces with morphology and semantics. Study will be undertaken within light of recent linguistic research. Taught in Spanish. Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year.

Topics in pragmatics and discourse analysis related to linguistic phenomena in Spanish and other Romance languages. Topics include inferential, cognitive, and socio-cultural pragmatic theories, discourse structure/organization, reference (anaphora, deixis), speech acts and politeness, and discourse connectives and markers. Taught in Spanish.

The nature and composition of the English vocabulary, with particular attention to Greek and Latin elements, and its development among diverse cultures and societies; techniques of morphological analysis, allomorphy, derivational morphology, formal and semantic change, and Indo-European etymology.

Research internship on a faculty-directed project. Work may include collection, transcription, management, and analysis of data; development of scripts, software, or other research tools; assistance in the dissemination of research results; or other duties as appropriate.

Internship in teaching linguistics at the college level under the direction of a faculty member. Internship work may include assisting with learning activities in the classroom, developing course materials and assignments, teaching a portion of one or more class meetings under faculty supervision, conducting discussion, and tutoring students.

Explores the language of digital communication, ranging from the innovation of new words and expressions in social media to the construction of identities in cyberspace. Students will use modern tools in the analysis of language data to understand the mechanisms that shape language usage in the digital world.

Study of the patterns of literary style, including language and literary stylistics, genre, and cognition and perception.

Introduction to grammar formalisms as applied in computational linguistics. This course is open to graduate students with no prior background in linguistics.

Introduction to experimental methods in linguistics, including experimental design and stimulus creation. Methods include informal vs. formal acceptability judgments, psycholinguistic methods, and neurolinguistic techniques. Students will develop and run in-class behavioral experiments in small groups. This will include formulating hypotheses, designing stimuli, running participants, and analyzing and reporting results.