LING 2248 - Native American Languages

(crosslisted) AIIS 2240
(GB) (CA-AS, GLC-AS, SCD-AS)

Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with AIIS 6240/LING 6248.

S. Murray.

This course explores the wide variety of languages indigenous to the Americas. There were thousands of languages spoken in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans and hundreds of these languages are still spoken today. We will look at several of these languages in terms of their linguistic structure as well as from social, historical, and political perspectives. No prior linguistic background is required and no previous knowledge of any Native American languages is presumed.