76-451 Topics in Language Study Units: 9.0 Department: English Cross-listed: 76-851 Related URLs: http://hss.cmu.edu/HTML/departments/engl Seminars focusing on topics in linguistics and discourse studies. Topics will vary by semester. Consult detailed course descriptions available from the Department each semester for details. May be repeated for credit. EXAMPLE: Patterns of English Usage. Beside the conventional "grammar" of English there lurk an unlimited number of patterns that play an important and largely unrecognized role in organizing our language. In this course you will learn some techniques for recovering these patterns from an electronic corpus and making generalizations about their structure and distribution.

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