Linguistics

Courses

Courses

The Brown Program in Linguistics offers a range of courses across different areas of Linguistics.

Below are the course offerings for the academic year 2025-2026.

  • Check out LING XLIST to see available courses on cab.brown.edu.
  • The first set of classes in each semester is offered by the Linguistics Program, and the second by other units on campus.
  • For concentrators, please see the Concentration page to see and be sure to discuss your class choices with your concentration advisor.

Fall 2025

  • LING 0100 Introduction to Linguistics (Grishin)
  • LING 0580 Bad Grammar: Language, Power, and Society (Benheim)
  • LING 1440 Compositional Semantics (Jacobson)
  • LING 1310 Introduction to Syntax (Grishin)
  • LING 1210 Phonetics (Benheim)
  • LING 1630 Meaning and Cognition (Jacobson)
  • LING 1771 Introduction to Corpus Linguistics (Cohen Priva)

Courses of interest in other depts:

  • ANTH 0800 Sound and Symbols
  • CLPS 1820 Language and the Brain
  • CLPS 1890 Laboratory in Psycholinguistics
  • CSCI 1460 Computational Linguistics
  • ETHN 1750X Native American Language Loss, Revitalization, and Resiliency
  • FREN 1020A Histoire de la langue française
  • LANG 0750 Identity and Languages in Contemporary Africa
  • PHIL 0640 Logic
  • PHIL 1635 Advanced deductive logic 

Spring 2026

  • LING 0100 Introduction to Linguistics (Jacobson)
  • LING 0130 Playing with Words: The Linguistic Principles Behind Word Games and Puzzles (AnderBois)
  • LING 0131 Constructed Languages (Grishin)
  • LING 1140 Evolution of Human Language (Benheim)
  • LING 1312 Morphology (Grishin)
  • LING 1631 Bilingualism (Kpogo)
  • LING 1500 Sociolinguistics (Benheim)

 

Courses of interest in other depts:

  • ANTH 1311 Language and Medicine
  • ANTH 1650 Ancient Maya Writing
  • ANTH 1820 Lost languages
  • ANTH 2801 Whiteness and Language
  • CLPS 1650 Child Language Acquisition
  • EAST 1510 Chinese: A History of the Language
  • PHIL 1655 Philosophical Logic

Additional Information

Concentrations

Brown Linguistics offers AB and ScB Concentrations in Linguistics.

People

The Brown Linguistics community is made up of core faculty, staff, visiting professors and postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students and affiliate faculty.