GERMAN 140Language and Linguistics
German · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Taught in English with German proficiency required. Theories and methods of linguistics, with emphasis on structure of modern standard German, its phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Other topics include diachronic, spatial, and social variation of German (i.e., its historical development, dialectology, and sociolinguistic dimensions).
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite or corequisite: course 6.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
GERMAN 140
- GERMAN C142Linguistic Theory and Grammatical Description
- GERMAN 264Topics in Communicative, Cognitive, and Functional Approaches to Linguistic Analysis
- GERMAN C238Linguistic Theory and Grammatical Description
- GERMAN 264Topics in Communicative, Cognitive, and Functional Approaches to Linguistic Analysisanother path to it
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 4 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.