Addresses the impact of globalization, colonization, nation-statism, and bottom-up processes on linguistic diversity.
Examines social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of globalization from an African perspective.
Introduces students to the art and science of collecting and analysing real-life language data during experiential learning trips.
Explores the relationship between language and society, covering topics such as language variation, gender, language attitudes and ideologies.
Introduction to morphology and syntax in a cross-linguistic, basic linguistic theory perspective.
Examines linguistic and social aspects of language contact and change.
Introductory linguistics course covering the basics of language structure and linguistic theory.
Co-taught introductory course focusing on the relationship between language structure, thought, and culture.
Capstone for individual major students in preparation for postgraduate work.
Explores links between language structures and cognitive processes.
Explores multilingualism and language contact in multilingual speakers and societies.
A holistic take on the African Caribbean English Creoles.
Supervised reading course for individual students, oral presentations, discussions, reports.
Capstone course for individual students, involving presentation on proposed topic, consultations, and supervised thesis of 30,000 words.
Overview of research methods in linguistics, including elicitation, recording, archiving, experiments and analysis.