An introduction to the scientific analysis of the structure and uses of language. Core areas covered include phonetics and phonology, morphology, the lexicon, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, with ...

All MA students in Linguistics, including students in the TESOL Emphasis program, must pass a Comprehensive Exam (“Comps”). The exam for TESOL students addresses the Linguistics core content ...

The study of language semantics and syntax explores the intricate relationship between meaning and grammatical structure. Contemporary research has increasingly focused on how semantic content is ...

The traditional approach to generation is to derive a surface string from a semantic structure through various intermediate levels using a carefully ordered set of transformational steps. We show by ...