This course introduces linguistics, the scientific study of the human language. Students will study basic concepts in general linguistics as well as examine linguistic data from a broad range of languages from the following perspectives: phonetics and phonology (study of sounds), morphology (study of words, how they are formed), syntax (study of sentence structures) and semantics (study of meaning).

The required textbook is "Language Files 11th ed." from OSU Linguistics. ISBN: 9780814252703.