L590: Also meets with L490
Structure of Japanese

The goal of this course is to analyze various linguistic phenomena
in  Japanese from a theoretical point of view.  The main focus of
the course will be placed on phonology and syntax, though various
topics on phonetics, morphology, semantics, and language
variation will be also touched upon.  Requirements are assignments
and mid-term & final projects. In those projects,, each student
will  attempt to provide her/his own analysis of some linguistic
phenomenon in Japanese, comparing it with a related phenomenon in
some other language(s), and present the results in the class.  No
knowledge of Japanese is presupposed but some background in formal
linguistics is required.  The course will satisfy the foreign
language structure requirement at both MA and Ph.D. levels.