Fundamentals of the Syntax and Morphology of Natural Language

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This course introduces students to the syntax and morphology of natural language and the fundamental concepts and methods of syntactic and morphological analysis. Topics include primitives and basic units of sentence, phrasal, and word formation; sentence and word structures and the operations that derive them; and approaches to the syntax and morphology of natural languages and how they relate to questions about language acquisition and development and language variation and change.

Skills

• languagesAI review: "syntax and morphology of natural language"

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• No: Live work with people
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "ethical"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

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