LING 165B

Syntax II

Linguistics · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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To be taken in term following completion of course 120B or as soon as possible thereafter. Recommended for students who plan to do graduate work in linguistics. Form of grammars, word formation, formal and substantive universals in syntax, relation between syntax and semantics.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Winter 2026
Spring 2026
Summer 2026
Fall 2026
Winter 2027
Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

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Requisite: course 120B.

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LING 120B

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

LING 165B

LING 120BSyntax I
- LING 20Introduction to Linguistic Analysis

1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

LING 165B

LING 198AHonors Research in Linguistics I
- LING 198BHonors Research in Linguistics II

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.