Dr. Cote 3 credits

In this course, we will examine the structure of the English language from a modern, linguistic perspective. We will explore what it means to be a native speaker of a language, and we will develop a conscious awareness of particular subconscious grammatical principles and rules that shape our everyday use of English, including the basics of English phonetics, phonology, and morphology, details about English lexical classes, and a broad range of English syntactic structures. More generally, students should come away from this course with a better understanding of what grammar rules are, of where they come from, of how they can be determined, and of the extent to which they are or are not fixed and comprehensive.  No prior knowledge of English grammar is required, but students should expect that the course will cover a lot of grammatical territory in a single semester.

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