Class Id: 9137
Days: W
Start Time: 01:30 PM
End Time: 04:20 PM
Building: EPYNE
Room: 023
Course Id: 4068
Departments and Numbers: LIN 430, PSY 430
Area: EC
Title: Cognitive Linguistics
Description: Cognitive Linguistics is a broad approach to language that places psychological reality at the top of the list of theoretical desiderata. In this course we will investigate the nature of linguistic semantic categories and the implications for theories of grammar. In the domain of semantic categories, we will study the issues and controversies surrounding frame semantics, decompositional semantics, conceptual metaphor, and exemplar/prototype/connectionist models. Turning our attention to grammar, we will focus on both regularities and irregularities, within and across languages, attempting to explain why languages are the way they are.
Prerequisites: Open to students planning to complete the certificate in linguistics and/or psychology concentrators, or by permission of the instructor.
Professors: Adele E. Goldberg
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