Course list by time
Courses numbered 3xx are six-week courses (listed in both sessions). Courses numbered 1xx are three-week courses in session 1; courses numbered 2xx are three-week courses in session 2.
A full list of session 2 courses with classroom assignments is posted at session-2-schedule.pdf. For descriptions of classroom locations see ClassroomDirections.pdf; for a map highlighting classroom buildings see classroom-map.pdf.
Session 1: 6 July – 23 July
Monday and Wednesday 8:30 – 10:15
LSA 309 Language documentation for cross-linguistic comparison | Stephen C. Levinson
LSA 310 Linguistic field methods | Pamela Munro
LSA 105 Construction grammar and typology | William Croft
LSA 138 Language development in infancy and early childhood | Daniel Swingley
LSA 132 Topics in the phonology of Native American languages | Alan C. L. Yu
LSA 136 Vedic Sanskrit grammar: Synchrony and diachrony | Gary B. Holland
Monday and Wednesday 10:30 – 12:15
LSA 305 Grammar and social cognition | Nick Evans
LSA 312 Phonological theory | John Harris
LSA 116 Lexical semantics of verbs | Beth Levin
LSA 119 Mental spaces and conceptual blending | Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner
LSA 123 Prehistory of language | Jean-Marie Hombert
LSA 130 Syntax of Indonesian languages | Peter Austin
LSA 131 The language of public discourse | Geoffrey Nunberg
Monday and Wednesday 1:30 – 3:15
LSA 311 Morphological theory | Geert Booij
LSA 109 Deixis and indexicality | William F. Hanks
LSA 110 English grammar | Geoffrey K. Pullum
LSA 112 Experimental semantics | Teenie Matlock
LSA 113 Field phonetics and phonetic typology | Ian Maddieson
LSA 118 Linguistic prehistory and population genetics | Bernard Comrie
LSA 135 Usage frequency effects in syntax | Martin Haspelmath
Monday and Wednesday 3:30 – 5:15
LSA 302 Articulatory phonetics | Bryan Gick and Ian Wilson
LSA 307 Indo-European linguistics | Mark R. Hale
LSA 313 Pragmatics | Gregory Ward
LSA 104 Auditory word recognition | Arthur G. Samuel
LSA 106 Constructions and cognitive linguistics | Adele Goldberg
LSA 117 Linguistic anthropology of language contact | Jane H. Hill
LSA 134 Understanding typological distributions | Balthasar Bickel
Tuesday and Thursday 8:30 – 10:15
LSA 306 Historical linguistics | Andrew Garrett and Paul Kiparsky
LSA 315 Sociolinguistics of style | Mary Bucholtz
LSA 115 Language documentation and language communities | Siri G. Tuttle
LSA 122 Phonological structures in languages of the Horn of Africa | Sharon Rose
LSA 124 Prosody and language comprehension | Delphine Dahan
LSA 126 Semantics and pragmatics of conditionals | Eve E. Sweetser
LSA 129 Syntax and information structure at the interface | Maria Polinsky
Tuesday and Thursday 10:30 – 12:15
LSA 303 Austronesian and Papuan historical linguistics | Malcolm Ross
LSA 314 Semantics | Chris Barker
LSA 317 Structure and function in signed languages | Terry Janzen
LSA 101 Acquisition of speech production | Mary E. Beckman
LSA 114 Intersubjectivity in grammar | Arie Verhagen
LSA 120 Morphosyntactic features and inflectional morphology | Greville G. Corbett
LSA 133 Topics in Tibeto-Burman historical/comparative linguistics | James A. Matisoff
Tuesday and Thursday 1:30 – 3:15
LSA 301 Acoustic phonetics | Richard Wright
LSA 318 Syntactic dependencies | Line Mikkelsen and Eric Potsdam
LSA 102 Anatolian and Indo-European | Anna Morpurgo Davies
LSA 107 Crosslinguistic language acquisition | Sabine Stoll
LSA 108 Data management for field linguistics | Jeff Good
LSA 121 Phonetic naturalness and unnaturalness in phonology | Eugene Buckley
LSA 127 Semantics, grammar, and political linguistics in NTL | George Lakoff
Tuesday and Thursday 3:30 – 5:15
LSA 304 Correspondence and the phonological lexicon | Donca Steriade
LSA 316 Sociolinguistics of variation | Dennis R. Preston
LSA 319 Syntax of argument structure | Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.
LSA 103 Athabaskan linguistic structures | Keren Rice
LSA 111 Evolution of language | Michael Tomasello
LSA 125 Psycholinguistics and syntactic corpora | T. Florian Jaeger
LSA 128 Semantics of tense cross-linguistically | Judith Tonhauser
Session 2: 27 July – 13 August
Monday and Wednesday 8:30 – 10:15
LSA 309 Language documentation for cross-linguistic comparison | Stephen C. Levinson
LSA 310 Linguistic field methods | Pamela Munro
LSA 203 Crosslinguistic compositional semantics | Maria Bittner
LSA 219 Morphological innovation and change | Adam Albright
LSA 235 Verbal art | Lev Michael
Monday and Wednesday 10:30 – 12:15
LSA 305 Grammar and social cognition | Nick Evans
LSA 312 Phonological theory | John Harris
LSA 201 Bilingualism | Devyani Sharma
LSA 205 Experimental and corpus-based approaches to metaphor | Benjamin Bergen
LSA 211 Japanese and Korean historical syntax | John Whitman
LSA 226 Polarity and scalarity | Michael Israel
LSA 234 Usage effects in phonology and morphology | Jennifer Hay
Monday and Wednesday 1:30 – 3:15
LSA 311 Morphological theory | Geert Booij
LSA 202 Computational methods in linguistic reconstruction | Johanna Nichols, Don Ringe, and Tandy Warnow
LSA 210 Intonational typology | Carlos Gussenhoven
LSA 215 Linguistic areas and language contact (with a focus on Southeast Asia) | Nick Enfield
LSA 220 Morphology, syntax, and semantics of modals | Kai von Fintel and Sabine Iatridou
LSA 229 Sociophonetics | Robert Podesva
Monday and Wednesday 3:30 – 5:15
LSA 302 Articulatory phonetics | Bryan Gick and Ian Wilson
LSA 307 Indo-European linguistics | Mark R. Hale
LSA 313 Pragmatics | Gregory Ward
LSA 204 Dialect contact and dialect formation | Paul Kerswill
LSA 217 Locality and nonlocality in phonology | Gunnar Ólafur Hansson
LSA 222 Narrative and viewpoint | Barbara Dancygier
LSA 236 Wakashan linguistic structures | Emmon Bach and Patricia A. Shaw
Tuesday and Thursday 8:30 – 10:15
LSA 306 Historical linguistics | Andrew Garrett and Paul Kiparsky
LSA 315 Sociolinguistics of style | Mary Bucholtz
LSA 218 Mixed languages | Richard A. Rhodes
LSA 224 Phonological learning and typology | Elliott Moreton
LSA 228 Semantic categorization in Australian languages | Alice Gaby
LSA 233 Typology of Sinitic languages | Hilary Chappell
Tuesday and Thursday 10:30 – 12:15
LSA 303 Austronesian and Papuan historical linguistics | Malcolm Ross
LSA 314 Semantics | Chris Barker
LSA 317 Structure and function in signed languages | Terry Janzen
LSA 213 Language revitalization | Leanne Hinton
LSA 221 Morphology-phonology interface | Sharon Inkelas
LSA 223 Nominal classification | Frank Seifart
LSA 230 Sound change in the laboratory | John J. Ohala
Tuesday and Thursday 1:30 – 3:15
LSA 301 Acoustic phonetics | Richard Wright
LSA 318 Syntactic dependencies | Line Mikkelsen and Eric Potsdam
LSA 212 Language contact and language change | Sarah Thomason
LSA 214 Language use in Amazonia | Patience Epps
LSA 227 Prosody and language production | Susanne Gahl
LSA 231 Tocharian and Indo-European | Jay Jasanoff
LSA 232 Tone system typology | Larry M. Hyman
Tuesday and Thursday 3:30 – 5:15
LSA 304 Correspondence and the phonological lexicon | Donca Steriade
LSA 316 Sociolinguistics of variation | Dennis R. Preston
LSA 319 Syntax of argument structure | Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.
LSA 206 Field semantics and semantic typology | Birgit Hellwig
LSA 207 Gesture and language | Susan Duncan
LSA 216 Linguistic effects of language attrition and shift | Carmel O'Shannessy
LSA 225 Phonological typology of Papuan languages | Mark Donohue
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