Minor Concentration Linguistics (18 credits)

Program Requirements

This program may be expanded to the Major Concentration Linguistics.

Required Courses (9 credits)

• LING 201 Introduction to Linguistics (3 credits)

  Offered by: Linguistics (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  Linguistics : General introduction to linguistics, the scientific study of human language. Covers the core theoretical subfields of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Also provides background on other subfields including sociolinguistics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, linguistic variation, and language acquisition.

  Terms: Fall 2022, Winter 2023

  Instructors: Sonderegger, Morgan (Fall) Shimoyama, Junko; Gatchalian, Terrance (Winter)

  • Fall and Winter

• LING 330 Phonetics (3 credits)

  Offered by: Linguistics (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  Linguistics : Transcription, identification, and production of speech sounds. Introduction to the acoustic properties of speech sounds, acoustic analysis of speech, and auditory phonetics.

  Terms: Fall 2022, Winter 2023

  Instructors: Clayards, Meghan (Fall) Lipari, Massimo (Winter)

  • Winter

  • Prerequisite: LlNG 201

• LING 371 Syntax 1 (3 credits)

  Offered by: Linguistics (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  Linguistics : Introduction to the study of generative syntax of natural languages, emphasizing basic concepts and formalism: phrase structure rules, transformations, and conditions on rules.

  Terms: Fall 2022, Winter 2023

  Instructors: Shimoyama, Junko (Fall) Martinovic, Martina (Winter)

  • Winter

  • Prerequisite: LING 201.

Complementary Courses (9 credits)

9 credits in Linguistics chosen according to the student's interests. At least 3 of these credits must be at the 400 or 500 level. Only 3 credits at the 200 level may count towards complementary credits. The complementary courses may include (but not limited to) the following:

• COMP 230 Logic and Computability (3 credits)

  Offered by: Computer Science (Faculty of Science)

  Overview

  Computer Science (Sci) : Propositional Logic, predicate calculus, proof systems, computability Turing machines, Church-Turing thesis, unsolvable problems, completeness, incompleteness, Tarski semantics, uses and misuses of Gödel's theorem.

  Terms: Fall 2022

  Instructors: Schlimm, Dirk (Fall)

  • 3 hours

  • Prerequisite: CEGEP level mathematics.

• LING 360 Introduction to Semantics (3 credits)

  Offered by: Linguistics (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  Linguistics : Introduction to the rudiments of semantics, focusing on those aspects of meaning that are invariant across contexts and the ways in which the meaning of a complex expression is determined by the meanings of its constituents.

  Terms: Fall 2022

  Instructors: Gillon, Brendan (Fall)

  • Fall

  • Prerequisites: LING 201 and PHIL 210

  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken LING 370.

• MATH 318 Mathematical Logic (3 credits)

  Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Science)

  Overview

  Mathematics & Statistics (Sci) : Propositional logic: truth-tables, formal proof systems, completeness and compactness theorems, Boolean algebras; first-order logic: formal proofs, Gödel's completeness theorem; axiomatic theories; set theory; Cantor's theorem, axiom of choice and Zorn's lemma, Peano arithmetic; Gödel's incompleteness theorem.

  Terms: Fall 2022

  Instructors: Sabok, Marcin (Fall)

  • Fall

  • Prerequisite(s): MATH 235 or MATH 240 or MATH 242.

• PHIL 210 Introduction to Deductive Logic 1 (3 credits)

  Offered by: Philosophy (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  Philosophy : An introduction to propositional and predicate logic; formalization of arguments, truth tables, systems of deduction, elementary metaresults, and related topics.

  Terms: Fall 2022, Summer 2023

  Instructors: Therrien, Valérie Lynn (Fall) Xu, Ruigang (Summer)

  • Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 318