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Functions of Language Syllabus |
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Course Outline |
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Linguistics 503 |
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The table below gives an approximate schedule of classes, assignments, and lectures for this course. On days that are shaded gray, class does not meet. Days shaded gray before the last day of classes are either holidays, cancelled classes, or furlough days.
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Day |
Reading |
Assignment |
Lecture |
Background |
| Thu Jan 17 | Chapter 1. Kroeger. Biber 1993 | Prerequisites. Syllabus. Expectations. The role of assignments in this course. Assignment: Corpus assignment | Lecture: What is grammar? Introductory tutorial on corpus tools. | |
| Tue Jan 22 | Assignment: Second corpus assignment | Lecture: Corpus research demos. Corpus Linguistics BNC web Intro | ||
| Thu Jan 24 | ||||
| Tue Jan 29 | From Chapter 2. Exercises 2A-2B. | Chapter 2. Kroeger. Position classes. Position class charts. More on positional analysis | ||
| Thu Jan 31 | ||||
| Tue Feb 05 | From Chapter 3. Exercises 3A-3D. | Chapter 3. Kroeger. Constituent structure. Words and Heads | ||
| Thu Feb 07 | ||||
| Tue Feb 12 | No exercises. Writing assignment. | Chapter 4. Kroeger. Roles and relations. Bresnan, et al. Predicting the Dative Alternation, Roles and relations lecture. | ||
| Thu Feb 14 | ||||
| Tue Feb 19 | From Blackboard: The Cheyenne problem. From Chapter 4. Exercise 4A [1-5,7-11,17,18] From Chapter 5. Exercises 5A-5B. | Chapter 5. Kroeger. Lexical entries and complete clauses. Words and Heads What PS-rules mean More on positional analysis | ||
| Thu Feb 21 | ||||
| Tue Feb 26 | Exercises 6A-6C | Chapter 6. Kroeger. Noun Phrases. | ||
| Thu Feb 28 | ||||
| Tue Mar 05 | Chapter 7. Case & Agreement. Nominative/accusative. Ergative/absolutive. Languages in which phrase structure is less dominant. | |||
| Thu Mar 07 | ||||
| Tue Mar 12 | Chapter 8. Noun classes and pronouns. | From Chapter 7. Exercise 7A, 7C. From Chapter 8. Exercises 8B, 8C. | ||
| Thu Mar 14 | ||||
| Tue Mar 19 | Chapter 1. Byrd & Mintz. | Assignment: Midterm. | ||
| Thu Mar 21 | ||||
| Tue Mar 26 | Chapter 2. Byrd & Mintz. Introducing acoustic and articulatory phonetics. Acoustics | |||
| Thu Mar 28 | ||||
| Tue Apr 02 | H'day | H'day | H'day | H'day |
| Thu Apr 04 | H'day | H'day | H'day | H'day |
| Tue Apr 09 | Chapter 3. Byrd & Mintz. | Phonetics assignment | Cross-linguistic phonetics. | |
| Thu Apr 11 | Chapters 4 and 5 Byrd & Mintz. Speech perception. Perception | |||
| Tue Apr 16 | Chapter 3. Byrd & Mintz. Chapter 7. Byrd & Mintz. Phonological patterns. | Cross-linguistic phonetics. | ||
| Thu Apr 18 | ||||
| Tue Apr 23 | Assignment: phonology assignment. | Chapter 15 Kroeger. Phonological processes. Practice problems. Phonology. Features. Rules. Hungarian vowel harmony. Hungarian problem solution. | ||
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| Tue Apr 30 | Birner & Ward (1998), Li & Thompson (1975). | Subject-Topic writing assignment, Final | Lecture: Subject topic. Universal subjecthood. | |
| Thu May 02 | ||||
| Tue May 07 | Final. Last day of class. New and old information. Definiteness word order. | Lecture: Topic and focus. Information structure and sentence form. | ||
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| Thu May 16 | ||||
| Tue May 21 | Chapter 1000. Commencement! |