204A-204B. Romance Syntax: French (1 to 4 units each). Lecture, three hours. Prerequisites: Linguistics 120B, 200B, consent of instructor. Course 204A is prerequisite to 204B. Structure of French from point of view of contemporary syntactic theory, with emphasis on considerations of comparative syntax with other Romance languages. Topics include verbal/auxiliary system; WH-movement and Complementizer system; clitic constructions, causatives, inversion phenomena; quantifier distribution; impersonal constructions; negation and subjunctive. S/U or letter grading.
211. Comparative Romance Syntax. Lecture, three hours. Prerequisite: French 210A or Portuguese 204A or Spanish 204A or consent of instructor. Comparative study of syntactic processes in Romance languages. Investigation of parameters underlying linguistic variation.
255. Topics in Romance Syntax (1 to 4 units). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Topics in syntax of Romance languages, with emphasis on recent development in comparative studies; theoretical innovations based on Romance syntax.
596. Directed Individual Study or Research (4 to 8 units). Prerequisite: consent of instructor and program chair. Study or research in areas or on subjects not offered as regular courses. Eight units may be applied toward M.A. degree requirements. S/U grading.
597. Preparation for Graduate Examinations (4 to 12 units). Prerequisite: consent of graduate adviser. Individual preparation for M.A. comprehensive examination or Ph.D. qualifying examinations. May be taken only once for each degree examination and only in term that comprehensive or qualifying examinations are to be taken. S/U grading.
598. Research for M.A. Thesis (2 to 12 units). Prerequisite: consent of guidance committee. Research in preparation of M.A. thesis. S/U grading.
599. Research for Ph.D. Dissertation (2 to 12 units). Prerequisite: successful completion of Ph.D. qualifying examinations. Research for and preparation of Ph.D. dissertation. S/U grading.
In consultation with the appropriate adviser(s), courses should be selected with an eye to the organic relationship between them, preferably among those listed below and/or their requisites:
201. Bibliography and Methods of Research
M200. Research Resources
201. Phonological Theory II
206. Syntactic Theory II
M205A-M205B. Development of Portuguese and Spanish Languages
210. Indo-European Linguistics: Advanced Course
280A-280B. Seminars: Indo-European Linguistics
242. Italic Dialects and Latin Historical Grammar
222A. History of the Italian Language
240. History of the Latin Language
231A-231B. Seminars: Medieval Latin
210A. Phonology and Morphology from Vulgar Latin to French Classicism
210B. Syntax and Semantics from Vulgar Latin to French Classicism
219A-219B. Paleography I, II
222C. Italian Dialectology
Spanish
209. Dialectology
225G. Linguistic Structures
232. Vulgar Latin
214. Problematics of Medieval Language and Literature
M251A-M251B. Studies in Galegan-Portuguese and Old Spanish
210. Studies in Early Italian Literature
222A-222B-222C. Studies in History of Italian Language
201. Literary Research and Composition
222B. Structure of Modern Italian
202. Synchronic Morphology and Phonology
204A-204B. Generative Grammar
202A. Phonology
202B. Morphology
204A-204B. Generative Syntax and Semantics
256A-256B. Studies in Spanish Linguistics
257. Studies in Dialectology
260A-260B. Studies in History of Ideas
202. Historical and Philosophical Background to French Literary Criticism
203. Contemporary Theories
258A-258B. Studies in Literary Criticism
205A-205B. Studies in Criticism
M201A-M201B. Literary Theory and Criticism
218. Medieval Latin Literary History
259A-259B. Studies in Philosophy and Literature
214C. Studies in Medieval Literature: Petrarca's Canzoniere
251. Seminar: Petrarch
215A-215D. Medieval Literature
250A. Major Medieval Texts
250B. Structures of Medieval Literature
250C. Problems in Medieval Literature
210. Studies in Early Italian Literature
214A-214F. Studies in Medieval Literature
215A-215B. Studies in 15th-Century Literature
250A-250D. Seminars: Dante
252. Seminar: Boccaccio
C224. Early Portuguese Literature
222. Medieval Epic and Narrative Poetry
223. Medieval Prose
262A-262B. Studies in Medieval Spanish Literature
252. Studies in Early Portuguese Literature
253. Studies in Modern Portuguese Literature
254. Studies in Early Brazilian Literature
255. Studies in Modern Brazilian Literature
218A-218B-218C. 18th Century
254A-254B. Studies in the 18th Century
218A-218D. Studies in 18th-Century Literature
256A-256B. Seminars: 18th Century
C227. 19th-Century Portuguese Literature
C232. 19th-Century Brazilian Literature and Culture
229. Romanticism
239. Romanticism and Realism in Spanish-American Literature
270A-270B. Studies in 18th-Century Spanish Literature
277A-277B. Studies in Colonial Spanish-American Literature
219A-219D. 19th Century
255A-255B. Studies in the 19th Century
219A-219D. Studies in 19th-Century Literature
257A-257B. Seminars: Romanticism
C228. Post-Romanticism and Naturalism in Portuguese Literature
230. Realism and Naturalism
271A-271B. Studies in 19th-Century Spanish Literature
278A-278B. Studies in 19th-Century Spanish-American Literature
220A-220D. 20th Century
221A-221B-221C. French-African Literature
256A-256B. Studies in Contemporary Literature
257A-257B. Studies in French-African Literature
220. Studies in Turn-of-the-Century Literature
221A-221E. Studies in 20th-Century Literature
258A-258B. Seminars: Contemporary Italian Literature
C229. 20th-Century Portuguese Literature
C234. Brazilian Modernism
C235. 20th-Century Brazilian Literature
232. Spanish Prose Literature from 1898 to the Civil War
233. Spanish Prose Literature after the Civil War
234. Spanish Drama and Poetry from 1898 to the Civil War
235. Spanish Drama and Poetry after the Civil War
240. Major Currents in Modern Spanish-American Literature
243A-243B. Contemporary Spanish-American Poetry
244A-244B. Contemporary Spanish-American Novel
245. Contemporary Spanish-American Essay
272A-272B. Studies in 20th-Century Spanish Literature
280A-280B. Studies in Contemporary Spanish-American Literature
227. Cervantes
216A-216B-216C. Renaissance
217A-217D. 17th Century
251A-251B. Studies in the Renaissance
252A-252B. Studies in the Baroque
253A-253B. Studies in the 17th Century
216A-216E. Studies in the Renaissance
217. Studies in 17th-Century Literature
253A-253B-253C. Seminars: Chivalric Poetry in Italy
255A-255B. Seminars: Baroque
C225. Camões and the Portuguese Renaissance
C226. Baroque and Neoclassical Portuguese Literature
C231. Colonial Brazilian Literature and Culture
224. Poetry of the Golden Age
225. Drama of the Golden Age
226. Prose of the Golden Age
237. Literature of the Spanish Conquest
264A-264B. Studies in Golden Age Spanish Literature