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"That Senate approve, as set forth in Paper 

the new course Linguistics 

Introductory 

Graduate Seminar in Linguistics." 

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1,TION: "That the course, Ling 897-5 Introductory 

Graduate Seminar in Linguistics, be 

approved". 

This course was approved by the Executive Committee 

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of the Senate Graduate Studies Committee at its 

meeting on December 20, 1971. 

J. Wheatley 

Dean 

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of supervision in addition to their normal work-load in the Department). 

Are there sufficient Library resources (append details):Yes (see 5. on next page) 

Appended: a) Outline of the Course 

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TITLE: Introductory Graduate Seminar in Linguistics 

EXPLANATION: A graduate linguistics program is affected by the fact that 

many undergraduate schools do not teach linguistics; it often 

happens that students from other disciplines will transfer 

into linguistics at the graduate level. The result is that 

there will always be a number of potential graduate students 

in linguistics whose background is insufficient to allow them 

to begin their studies at the graduate level. Many universities 

try to cope with this problem by requiring such students to 

take a qualifying exam preceded by a qualifying semester. This 

is what we are asking in the case of this Department. 

The plan is to design a reading list which will lead to an exam 

to be administered by the Graduate Studies Committee of the 

• Department. More significantly, we propose that each student 

should be assigned to a faculty member who will be the student's 

supervisor and whose responsibility it will be to ensure that the 

student is prepared for the examination. The list will represent 

what we can reasonably expect of a student to know prior to 

entering our full graduate program and will be roughly equivalent 

to what we expect from student entering from our own undergraduate 

program. 

FACULTY CONTACT: One hour per week (minimum) would be in face to face 

consultation with an appropriate faculty member. The course 

will culminate in an examination on the books read. No vector 

and no teaching credit is expected. 

CREDIT HOURS: Five (5) graduate credit hours (in addition to the 30 hours 

work required to receive an M.A.) 

OTHER SPECIFICATIONS: 

1.

Taking this course would not ensure admission as regular graduate student. 

2.

As a Qualifying graduatestudent, admission procedures would be same as 

in General Regulations. 

3.

Any student who had read the material on his own prior to being admitted 

as a qualifying student could "challenge" this course. 

4.

Undergraduates could not take this course. 

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This qualifying semester will not require further commitment of D.M.L. 

faculty. The required1ibrary resources are those of the present 

undergraduate and graduate programs. 

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OBLIGATORY READING 

LIST FOR STUDENTS IN THEIR QUALIFYING SEMESTER 

Gleason, H.     

Introduction to descriptive linguistics 

Harms, R.      

Introduction to phonological theory 

Liles, B.      

An Introduction to Transformational Grammar 

Jacobs, R. & 

P. Rosenbaum 

English Transformational Grammar 

Chafe, W.      

Meaning and structure of language: 

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first seven chapters. 

Lyons, J..      

Introduction to theoretical linguistics. 

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Chapters 9-10. 

Cook, W.      

An introduction to tagmemic analysis 

Alston, W.     

Philosophy of language 