Academics

Course Overview

This course is required to be taken twice, typically beginning in the fall semester of students’ first year in the Ph.D. program and continuing into the following spring semester. Students will design and conduct a research project under the supervision of a faculty member. Course requirements include a final paper by the end of the second semester with the following components, as applicable: development of an appropriate research plan, completion of the IRB human subjects review, and collection and analysis of data. LIN 880 may be repeated a third semester at the discretion of the instructor if requirements cannot be successfully completed in the usual two semesters.

Acceptance to LIN Ph.D. program and successful completion of the LIN Qualifying Exam.

Program: Linguistics

Credit: 3

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LIN-573

Corpus Linguistics

A corpus is a large collection of machine-readable…

Linguistics

LIN-573

Corpus Linguistics

A corpus is a large collection of machine-readable…

Linguistics

LIN-850

Historical Linguistics

This course focuses on language change. Topics include…

Linguistics

Credits 3

LIN-855

Language Typology

In this course we survey the range of…

Linguistics

Credits 3

LIN-860

Language Variation

An examination of analytical methods used in the…

Linguistics

Credits 3

LIN-883

Dissertation Concept Paper

This course serves as a transition from students'…

Linguistics

Credits 3