ANTH 286Descriptive Grammar 2 - Syntax
- Faculty
- Arts
- Last listed
- 1983–84
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1976–77 to 1983–84 (before that, 1974–75 to 1975–76 used the number for Introduction to Structural Linguistics 2); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
How composite utterances are formed in various languages. The syntactic mechanisms used in different languages will be examined in relation to the transformationalist theory that all languages work along basically similar lines. Examples from Eskimo, Latin, Swahili, Ojibwa, English, and Japanese will be examined in some detail. Course Descriptions 399 Sociology and Anthropology
As printed in the 1976–77 to 1983–84 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Requirements, as last listed
Prerequisite: 285*
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1974–75 to 1983–84, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1976–77 to 1983–84 8 calendars
How composite utterances are formed in various languages. The syntactic mechanisms used in different languages will be examined in relation to the transformationalist theory that all languages work along basically similar lines. Examples from Eskimo, Latin, Swahili, Ojibwa, English, and Japanese will be examined in some detail.
Course Descriptions 399 Sociology and Anthropology
Prerequisite: 285*
- 1976–77 PDF p. 400
- 1977–78* PDF p. 218
- 1978–79* PDF p. 220
- 1979–80 PDF p. 229
- 1980–81* PDF p. 242
- 1981–82* PDF p. 252
- 1982–83* PDF p. 261
- 1983–84* PDF p. 279
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.
1974–75 to 1975–76 2 calendars
Another title: Introduction to Structural Linguistics 2, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
A continuation of Anthropology 286. Prerequisite: Anthropology 286*. Three hours lecture