SPA 300 - Hispanic Linguistics

4 Hour(s)
This course is designed for students without any background or previous knowledge of linguistics. The course content focuses on the analysis of the basic linguistic characteristics of the Spanish language. It introduces students to the study of the Spanish sound system (phonetics and phonology), formation of words (morphology), sentence structure (syntax) and meaning (semantics and pragmatics). This course concludes with language variation and changes from diachronic (from Latin to contemporary Spanish) as well as synchronic (current regional dialects) perspectives.

FA,even years
Prerequisite(s): SPA 202