- Applied Linguistics -

 A detailed study of how grammatical constituents are structured and how they behave--both on the sentence level (syntax) and within a word (morphology). The frameworks for structural description will come from traditional ("school") grammar and from modern generative grammar. There will be some tension between the two, and those will be explored, too. The goal of the course is to enable students to describe and explain, explicitly and formally, grammatical processes which native speakers of English acquire intuitively. No prerequisites, but a knowledge level equivalent to ENGL 3132 "Introduction to Modern American English" is highly recommended.