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Campus | Swarthmore |
Semester | Fall 2019 |
Registration ID | LING03501 |
Course Title | Indigenous Languages of the Americas |
Credit | 1 |
Department | Linguistics |
Instructor | Fernald,Theodore |
Times and Days | TTH 01:15pm-02:30pm
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Room Location | Pearson Hall 115 |
Additional Course Info | At least 300 languages were spoken in North America before the first contact occurred with Europeans. Most of the surviving languages are on the verge of extinction. Students will learn about language patterns and characteristics of language families, including grammatical classification systems, animacy effects on sentence structure, verbs that incorporate other words, and evidentials. Topics include how languages in contact affect each other, issues of sociolinguistic identity, language endangerment and revitalization efforts, and matters of secrecy and cultural theft. |
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