GRAMMATICAL VARIABILITY OF LANGUAGE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: LINGUIS 101 or 301 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe cross-linguistic differences in syntax and morphosyntax of the world’s languages. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Summarize various theoretical approaches to this variation. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Discuss and evaluate competing hypotheses about language variation in light of empirical evidence. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Articulate a coherent linguistic analysis of particular language data on a selected topic. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe cross-linguistic differences in syntax and morphosyntax of the world’s languages. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Summarize various theoretical approaches to this variation. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Discuss and evaluate competing hypotheses about language variation in light of empirical evidence. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Articulate a coherent linguistic analysis of particular language data on a selected topic. Audience: Undergraduate