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Office of the Vice-President, Academic
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MEMORANDUM
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Senate
From:
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J.M. Munro, Chair, Senate Committee on Academic Planning
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M.A. and PhD Programs in Linguistics
Date: ?
April 11, 1994
Action undertaken by the Senate Graduate Studies Committee and the Senate Committee
on Academic Planning gives rise to the following motion:
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"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of
Governors asset forth in S.94 - 39 , the proposed M.A. and PhD
Programs in Linguistics."
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
To: Alison Watt, Secretary
Senate Committee on Academic
Planning
Subject: MA and PHD Programs in
Linguistics
From: B.P. Clayman
Dean of Graduate Studies
Date: March 2, 1994
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The attached MA and PHD Programs in Linguistics
were approved by the Senate Graduate Studies Committee,
at its Meeting on February 28, 1994, and are now being
forwarded to the Senate Committee on Academic Planning
for approval.
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES
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FROM: Phyllis Wrenn
Senate Graduate Studies Committee
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Associate Dean
SUBJECT: MA and PhD in Linguistics
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DATE: February 16, 1994
The Assessment Committee for New Graduate Programs (ACNGP) has approved and
recommends to the SGSC for approval a proposal for an
MA/PhD in Linguistics.
The first draft
of the proposal was received on 21 July
1993.
The ACNGP decided to accept the March 1993
external review of the Linguistics Department (attached to this proposal) in lieu of an external
review of the proposal.
Please place this proposal on the agenda of the next meeting of the SGSC. By copy of this memo,
I am inviting T. Perry to attend this meeting as a representative of the proposed program.
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T. Perry
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Linguistics Department
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Phyllis Wrenn
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FROM: Thomas A. Perry, Chi'
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
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Linguistics Department
Dean of Graduate Studies office
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DATE:
December 13, 1993
Attached please find detailed course offering projections and tentative teaching assignments for Lin-
guistics graduate courses over the next 6 semesters, as requested in your memo of September 22, 1993. I
apologize for the delay in submitting this information. The department has been undergoing a reorganiza-
tion, establishing several new committees and replacing committee chairs. As a result, much of this infor-
mation has only now become available.
Faculty teaching loads in Linguistics follow the Faculty of Arts norm of 4 course preparations per year
and 16 semester contact hours of teaching or the equivalent. Since undergraduate courses in Linguistics
are 3 contact hours and graduate courses 4, a typical full undergraduate load (12) will leave 4 contact
hours of teaching load to be satisfied. Most graduate teaching is taken from this pool of 'surplus' teaching
hours, as indicated on the attached table. Faculty names attached to offerings on the attached projections
will have teaching loads falling within this load for the period indicated. Please refer to the explanation
below as to how teaching credit is attributed for the various modes in which graduate offerings are
assigned to faculty.
Graduate courses in our department have been and will continue to be offered under three different
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categories of teaching credit for the faculty members giving them:
1.
Load -
Free-standing graduate course as a regularly scheduled offering. Credit is given for full con-
tact hours and a teaching preparation. To qualify for this category, a course must have 5 regularly-
enrolled students or more.
2.
Concurrent -
A graduate course offered in tandem with the cognate advanced (400-level) under-
graduate seminar. Graduate students attend the undergraduate section for 3 contact hours per week
and attend a separate 1-hour graduate seminar in addition. A paper is required for graduate stu-
dents in addition to whatever undergraduate course requirements there are. Faculty receive full con-
tact hour credit (4) and one course preparation credit covering both the graduate and undergraduate
courses. The graduate component of such courses may have as few as one student enrolled.
3.
Unscheduled -
Directed studies (LING 896) or courses arranged for a specialized clientele. Courses
enrolling less than five students fall into this category. Contact hour credit is given for such offerings
but not a course preparation credit.
In the attached projections, every graduate course in the present calendar is offered at least once in the
cycle of 6 semesters, with the exception of LING 808-4
History of Linguistics.
The department has no spe-
cialist in this area since the retirement of G. Bursill-Hall, and no students are currently studying in this
area.
All
offerings have been assigned to specific faculty, with reference to the full set of undergraduate
offerings, with a few exceptions. LING 803 in Summer 1995 and LING 805 in Fall 1995 are not assigned as
yet. The cognate advanced undergraduate courses are scheduled for those semesters, and these have not
been assigned as yet; the graduate courses will be concurrent offerings with them. LING 896
Directed Stud-
ies is
offered every semester as unscheduled teaching; it is our principal directed studies course and is
often used by senior supervisors for specialized individual teaching of their students. It is offered in multi-
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pie sections, each with an enrollment of one or two.
The degree requirements do not have a high proportion of prescribed courses. There are none in the
Ph.D. program and 8 of 20 credit hours in the M. A. We now follow the practice of severely limiting admis-
sions for semesters other than Fall. Consequently, a student entering in Fall 94 and taking at most two
courses per semester would complete degree requirements as shown in Table 1. Course 1 is normally a
required or core area course, while course 2 would typically be a specialized course:
Table
1: Progress
through course requirements
Degree
Semester
Course 1
Course 2
M. A.
94-3
LING
801*
One of: LING
811, 812, 850
95-1
LING
800*
One of: LING
813, 820, 896
95-2
One of: LING
810, 821, 855
Ph.
D.
94-3
LING 802 or
One of: LING
804
811, 812, 850
95-1
LING 820
LING 813 or
896
*Required course.
An inspection of the table would indicate that it is entirely possible for a student to complete the
requirements at a faster rate by taking more than two courses per semester.
The strategy employed here is to provide a maximum of flexibility within the resources of the depart-
ment. This has required us to make extensive use of the concurrent mode of course offering, where gradu-
ate and undergraduate populations are mixed for 3 of the 4 contact hours in the graduate course. The
department has been careful to assure that the level of instruction and expectations of students remains at
an appropriately high level in this situation. First of all, the undergraduate courses which are twinned
with graduate courses are designed at an exceptionally high level by the standards of the field. As noted in
the recent departmental review, our 400-level courses represent a second or third semester in their respec-
tive areas; most undergraduate Linguistics programs have only 1 or 2 semesters of coursework in these
areas. The undergraduate material is by most standards in the field already beyond the undergraduate
level. The departmental review report recommends removing some of this vertical streaming, and we are
studying this possibility now. If this were to happen, more of our resources could in theory be shifted to
exclusively graduate offerings. Some offerings, it should be noted, are offered always or as often as possi-
ble as exclusively graduate courses on load (e. g. the two required M. A. courses and LING 897,
Research
Seminar,
which is primarily for Ph. D. students at the prospectus stage).
It is difficult to project enrollment figures precisely over the period shown in the attached projections.
In recent years, we have found ourselves over-enrolled by about 10 full-time graduate students, and con-
sequently have used very restrictive admissions targets. This is expected to continue for two more years,
after which we expect the program to level off at 25. We do expect enrollment aggregates to continue
roughly as they have for the past two years or so, as shown in the attached table of enrollment history. The
reason for this is that a recent bulge of new students (from Fall 1992) will still be working their way
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through the coursework for their degrees, and a number of graduations of people no longer in coursework
is anticipated. Since there will be some new intake (perhaps 5 in 94-3), the proportion of students needing
course as opposed to thesis credit will increase, even as overall numbers of students in the program are
reduced. We expect, therefore, to service total graduate course enrollments in the range of 15-25 students
per semester over the next 6 semesters.
If you require any further information, please let me know.
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P. McFetridge, Graduate Chair
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Proposal for an Independent Graduate Program in
Linguistics
Replacing the Linguistics component of the Graduate Program in Lan-
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Introduction ?
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Program Description
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Need for the Program
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Present and Projected Resources ...............................................................................................................................4
Appendices
A.
Calendar Entry .......................................................................................................................................................7
B.
List of Degrees Awarded ......
(Av.ai1.ahl.a..in..O.ff.ica..o.f...the..Regis.tr). ...................................... 9
C. External Review of the Department
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D. Department's Response to the External
E. Course Outlines
No new courses, - Courses previously approved & appear in current Calendar
F. Curricula Vitae of Faculty
(Not included)
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Linguistics Department Graduate Program Proposal
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A.
Introduction
The Department of Linguistics was formed from a Division of the former Department of Languages,
Literatures and Linguistics upon the dissolution of that department in Fall, 1988. At that time, the existing
graduate curriculum in Linguistics was the only part of the Linguistics curriculum not to be moved admin-
istratively to the new department. The graduate program components of the former DLLL remained to-
gether under the Program in Languages and Linguistics. The curricular components of that program began
to function with virtual academic independence at that point, although their administration was handled
through a graduate studies office (.5 clerical staff) in Linguistics.
In March 1992, the Senate Committee on Academic Planning gave approval for further planning and
development of an independent program in Linguistics, affiliated with the Department of Linguistics. This
document sets forth the detailed proposal for the establishment of that program.
The proposal below recommends moving the graduate curriculum in Linguistics intact from the Pro-
gram in Languages and Linguistics to the Department of Linguistics without amendment. The program
will continue to function as it has to this point; no change in policy or procedure is contemplated.
B.
Program Description
Objectives of the Program
The program objectives remain to train teachers and researchers in Linguistics and related areas with
a solid grounding in both modern linguistic theories and actual language data.
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Relationship to existing programs
Both the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria offer M. A. and Ph. D. pro-
grams in Linguistics. AU three programs have core curricula in linguistic theory, and provide tracks in ap-
plied linguistics to some degree, and are involved in teaching and research related to indigenous languages
of B. C. among other language groups.
The program differs from the programs at the other two B. C. universities in orientation and coverage.
The program at UBC has a more specific theoretical orientation, while the program at Victoria is more con-
cerned with applied linguistics (language teaching, particularly English as a Second Language) than the
SFU program. Of the three departments, the SFU faculty offers a broader spectrum of theoretical and lan-
guage area specialists than the other departments. SFU, for example, offers specializations in discourse and
computational linguistics, Germanic, Slavic, Finno-Ugric, Austronesian, and a variety of east and south
Asian languages not covered elsewhere in B. C. Linguistics departments.
In areas where all three are active, specifically in B. C. native languages, there is every justification for
all three departments to be involved in the work of researching and teaching about this language group.
Even so, the interests in the three departments remain complementary, with e. g. SF0 covering the North
Wakashan group (Kwakwala, etc.) while the Victoria department deals with South Wakashan (Nootka and
related dialects).
All
three departments work in Coast and Interior Salish to some extent, but there are
enough individual languages in this large group that no competition arises. On the contrary, the number of
languages covered by the three departments is insufficient overall. B. C. native languages represent a rich
and diverse focus of study for linguists, and their status as endangered languages makes it important for
the universities in B. C to become active in recruiting new workers in this area. This is most obviously ac-
complished through their graduate programs.
Curriculum
The curriculum consists of the Linguistics component of the Program in Languages and Linguistics
(unamended in its substance). A version of the calendar entry edited to appear as a free-standing version is
to be found
in
Appendix A. Calendar Entry
beginning on page 7.
C.
Need for the Program
Professional goals met by the program
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• The goals of the graduate programs in Linguistics with respect to their graduates are twofold. First,
the programs train practicing phoneticians, grammarians and lexicologists. These graduatIfind's employ-
ment in speech-related clinical and research organizations, publishing (e. g. dictionaries), field research
(documenting and analyzing languages from the data provided by native speakers), and in computational
linguistics research (a branch of artificial intelligence research). Secondly, the programs educate teachers for
universities and other educational institutions. Such graduates find employment in Linguistics depart-
ments or language departments of universities, or may become language teachers or teachers of English as
a Second Language in educational institutions of all types and levels.
The goals of the programs with respect to the field are to advance the knowledge of languages by
training students to conduct research by documenting the structure and vocabulary of languages, and by
developing and examining theories which account for the human ability to acquire and use knowledge of
a language, as well as the content of that knowledge. Universities in British Columbia have a particular re-
sponsibility to the field, since the province is home to a significant number of endangered indigenous lan-
guages which still remain inadequately documented and for which the resources to teach the language to
succeeding generations still remain inadequate. This role for the department was recently reaffirmed in the
Review Report resulting from the review of the department in March 1993. The graduate programs remain
an important source through which to recruit new workers in this area, and the department is looking for
ways to increase the number of graduate students opting for this area.
2.
Student interest
The demand for the program is well-established, since students have been applying to and graduat-
ing from the Linguistics section of the Program in Languages and Linguistics or its predecessors for nearly
25 years. There are currently approximately 300 inquiries per year directed to graduate study in Linguistics,
resulting in over 100 applications. There are currently 35 students registered in the Linguistics component
of the existing program, which puts the department at its maximum capacity. The department presently
does no recruiting, and will likely only do so in the future to target top-echelon students.
3.
Program productivity and placement of graduates
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From the founding of the original Department of Modern Languages, a graduate curriculum in Lin-
guistics has been in place. The first M. A. degree was awarded in 1968, and the first Ph. D. in 1970. In all,
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TABLE 1. Graduate Degrees in Linguistics Awarded since 1968
Year
M. A.
Ph. D. Total
1968
1
0
1
1969
3
0
3
1970
5
1
6
1971
6
0
6
1972 0 1 ?
3 3
1973
0
0
0
1974
0
0
0
1975
1
0
1
1976
0
0
1 ?
0
1977
0
2
2
1978
3
1
4
1979
3
0
3
1980
3
1
4
1981
1
5
6
1982
2
2
4
1983
1
0
1
1984
2
0
2
1985
2
0
2
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TABLE 1. Graduate
Degrees in Linguistics Awarded since 1968
Year
M.A.
Ph. D.
Total
1986
1987
2
0
2
1988
0
0
0
1989
0
2
2
1990
0
2 1 ?
2
1991
1
0
1
1992
2
0
2
Total
38
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A list of graduates with their thesis titles is included as
Appendix B. List of Degrees Awarded
beginning
on page 9.
Although the department does not have a system for tracking graduates, Ph. D. graduates have found
reasonable success in finding placements over the years; graduates are found in faculty positions in Canada
(SFU —two, Ottawa, Lethbridge), Christchurch, New Zealand; Baltimore, Maryland; Heyderabad, India, to
name a few of the known cases. Of the four Ph. D. recipients since 1989, two have tenure-track positions,
while the other two remain in the field with limited-term and sessional appointments.
D. Present and Projected Resources
Present faculty and administrative personnel can continue in their present roles without reassign-
ment. There is presently one half-time clerical position in the department devoted to graduate studies mat-
ters. Eleven tenure-track faculty are available to support graduate study. All faculty presently supervise
graduate students:
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TABLE 2. Faculty Supervisory Loads (current)
Name
Senior Supervisor
Committee Member
M. A.
Ph. D.
M. A.
Ph.
D.
H.Hammerly
1
2
0
0
N. Lincoln
0
0
0
3
W. Roberts
1
1
1
0
R. Saunders
1
1
1
1
R.DeArmond
21
1
2
2
D.Gerdts
1
4
0
2
T.Perry
1
2
1
4
N. Hedberg
4
4
2
2
P. McFetridge
0
5
2
2
Z. McRobbie
1
1
0
1
The complete
curricula vitae of
the current faculty are attached to this document
(Appendix C. Curric-
ula Vitae of Faculty
beginning on page 12).
No incremental operating or capital resources will be required to implement this proposal. Library
resources are adequate for the program and are well-established, since they have been supporting the pro-
gram since 1965.
Faculty research funding presently provides employment opportunities for graduate students in a
few major grants and several smaller ones:
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TABLE 3. Funded Research Completed 1992 or later
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Agency/
Type
of
Internal!
Tenure
Researcher
Grant
External
Title
Amount
(years)
Status
Gerdts, D.
SFU/ Presi-
Internal
A Relational
5,840 2
completed
dent's
Theory of
Research
Korean Case
Grant
Gerdts, D.
SSHRC/
External
Licensing
2,500 1
held
Small Grant
obliques in Kin-
yarwanda
___________
Gerdts, D.
Jacobs
External
The Syntax of
1,200
1
held
Fund/Grant
Lexical Suffixes
Gerdts, D.
SSHRC/
External
A Relational
170,836
3
held
Standard
Theory of Case
grant
Hedberg, N.
SSHRC/
External
Discourse Mod-
4,999 2
held
Small grant
elling and the
Pragmatics of
Reference
Hedberg, N.
SFU Presi-
Internal
Universals of
5,500 2
held
dent's
Topic and Focus
Research
Marking
Grant
Lincoln, N.
SSHRC/
External
Kwakwala Dic-
160,985 3
held
Standard
tionary, Mor-
grant
phophonology,
and Texts
McFetridge,
Centre For
Internal
Experiments in
9,500 1
completed
P.
Systems Sci-
Computational
ence/Star-
Linguistics
tup
McFetridge,
Interna-
External
Autonomous
25,000 2
completed
P.
tional Sub-
Robotics
marine
Engineering
McFetridge,
Advanced
External
General
109,500
3
held
P.
Systems
research support
Institute of
B. C./Fel-
lowship
____________
McRobbie, Z.
SSHRC/
Internal
An analysis of
4,914 1
held
Small grant
fundamental fre-
quency patterns
in the realization
of quantity in
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Appendices
Appendix A. ?
Calendar Entry
Department of Linguistics
Location:
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9201 Classroom Complex
Telephone: ?
291-4725
Graduate Program
Chair: ?
(to be announced)
Faculty and Areas of Research
For a complete list
of
faculty. see the
Linguistics
undergraduate section.
G. L.
BursfflHall*
History of Linguistics
R.C. DeArmond
Slavic linguistics, syntactic theory
D.B. Gerdts
Syntax, morphology, relational grammar
H. Hammerly
Applied linguistics, second language teaching
N. Hedberg.
Syntax, semantics, pragmatics, cognitive science
N.
J.
Lincoln
Amerindian linguistics
P. McFetridge
Phonology, morphology, computational linguistics
Z. McRobbie
Experimental phonetics, phonology. Finno-Ugric linguistics, sociolinguistics
T.A. Perry
Phonology, German linguistics, linguistic theory
E.W. Roberts
Linguistic, phonological, and phonetic theory
R. Saunders
Amerindian linguistics
Adjunct Faculty
N.J. Turner
Ethnolinguistics
Associate Members
S. Davis
Philosophy
F. Popowich
Computing Science
J-M. Sosa
Spanish and Latin American Studies
W. Turnbull
Psychology
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Degrees offered
The program offers graduate work leading to the degrees of MA and PhD in Linguistics.
Applicants for graduate work are considered in terms of how their proposed programs of study co-
incide with the research and teaching interests of the Department's faculty. Where a student's interests span
more than one field of study, a program of course work and supervised research in more than one field may
be arranged. Individual programs may also be set up in co-operation with other departments under the spe-
cial arrangements provisions of the Graduate General Regulations (section 1.3.4.)
Time Required for Program
Although the University regulation allows a time limit of five years for completion of the MA degree
and eight years for the PhD, (including the work of the MA degree), an MA student is normally expected
to complete the degree in two years; a PhD student in three years after the MA.
For further information and regulations, refer to the Graduate General Regulations.
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MO
Admission
Students must be able to demonstrate adequate preparation in linguistics. It is not possible for stu-
dents having little or no academic preparation in linguistics to gain clear admission to the program or ad-
mission as a qualifying student (see section 1.3.5 of the Graduate General Regulations).
For general admission requirements refer to the Graduate General Regulations, section 1.
Areas of Specialization
Linguistic theory, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse-pragmatics, com-
putational linguistics, Amerindian linguistics, historical and comparative linguistics, history of linguistics,
sociolinguistics, second language learning.
Credit and Research Requirements
Course Work
Students must complete at least 20 credit hours of course work in Linguistics, including LING 800
and 801.
Thesis
All students in the program must complete an MA thesis based on original research. Students must
comply with the university regulations on completing and defending the thesis.
Language Requirements
Candidates are expected to show a high degree of competence in at least one language other than En-
glish.
PhD
Admission
Students will have to demonstrate a substantial background in linguistics. It is normally not possible
to gain direct admission to the PhD program without an MA in linguistics, or the equivalent.
For general admission requirements refer to the Graduate General Regulations, section 1.
Areas of Specialization
Linguistic theory, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse-pragmatics, com-
putational linguistics, Amerindian linguistics, historical and comparative linguistics, history of linguistics,
sociolinguistics, second language learning.
Credit and Research Requirements
These requirements are to be satisfied beyond the MA course requirements. Students may be required
to take specified courses from the MA program requirements as a condition of admission to the PhD pro-
gram.
Course Work
Students complete at least 16 credit hours of Linguistics courses, approved by the Supervisory Com-
mittee.
Thesis Proposal
Each candidate is required to develop a Research Proposal for a thesis based on original research. The
proposal
will
define the intended research and the relationship between it and existing scholarship. The
proposal will be presented to the Supervisory Committee for approval and presented as a colloquium.
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PhD Thesis
Students must complete the thesis in accordance with University Regulations.
Language Requirements
Candidates are required to show a high degree of competence in two languages besides English. They
should have some knowledge of the structure of at least one non-Indo-European language. The student's
Supervisory Committee will determine how the student is expected to demonstrate this linguistic compe-
tence.
Linguistics Graduate Courses
LING
800-4
Phonology
LING
801-4
Syntax
LING
802-4
Semantics
LING
803-4
Theory
LING
804-4
Field Methods
LING 805-4
Historical and Comparative Linguistics
LING
806-4
Sociolinguistics
LING 807-4
Computational Linguistics
LING 808-4
History of Linguistics
LING
809-4
Morphology
LING
810-4
Topics in Linguistics I
LING
811-4 Topics
in Linguistics II
LING
812-4
Topics
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Linguistics III
LING
813-4 Topics
in Linguistics
IV
LING
820-4
Formal Linguistics
LING 821-4
Phonetics
LING
850-4
Psycholinguistic Aspects of Language Learning
LING
851-4
Research Techniques and Experimental Design
LING
855-4
Applied Linguistics
LING
896-4
Directed Research
LING
897-4
Research Seminar
LING
898
MA
Thesis
LING
899
PhD Thesis
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