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Rensselaer Catalog 2025-2026

COGS 4560 - Cross-linguistic Perspectives

This course will explore the different strategies used by different languages to fulfill the same needs of human communication. A sampling of topics: quickly learning the basics of a new language using linguistic principles; cross-linguistic knowledge elicitation and engineering;  principles of generative grammar; space, time, agency, and other linguistic phenomena viewed cross-linguistically.

Prerequisite: COGS 2340  or permission of the instructor.

When Offered: AVAILABILITY OF INSTRUCTOR

Co-Listed: COGS 6560 . Students cannot obtain credit for both COGS 4560 and COGS 6560.

Graded: GRADED

Credit Hours: 4