This course involves the comparative description and analysis of the respective sound structures, morphological structures, and syntactic structures of Chinese and English from the perspective of current linguistic theory. Topics addressed may include tone, stress, and rhythm in the languages, prosody, word formation, phrasal and clausal structure, interrogation, embedding, conjoining, comparison, focusing devices, the auxiliary, and temporal and aspectual representation.

CILO-1: Discuss what constitutes a language and how it is organized internally. CILO-2: Discuss how the structure of language can be analyzed and described. CILO-3: Apply concepts discussed in the course to the analysis of linguistic structures. CILO-4: Work with linguistic data to formulate linguistic descriptions.