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Syllabus

Grades

Course Objectives

Textbooks

Recommanded Reading

Syllabus

	*Date*	*Content*	*Reading assignment*	*Homework*
1.	*2/25*	*Spring syllabus/Morphology*	*Nash 5; Yule 7 & 8*
2.	*3/3*	*Morphology*
3.	*3/10*	*Morphology*		*[Preliminary reports]*
4.	*3/17*	*Syntax*	*Nash 6; Yule 9 & 10*	*[Ex 1]*
5.	*3/24*	*Syntax*
6.	*3/31*	*Syntax*
7.	*4/14*	*Syntax*		*[Ex 2]*
8.	*4/21*	*Semantics*	*Nash 7; Yule 11, 12, & 13*	*Afternoon HOLIDAY!*
	*4/28*	*MIDTERM EXAM*
9.	*5/5*	*Semantics*
*10.*	*5/12*	*Semantics*		*[Reports]*
*11.*	*5/19*	*Semantics/Language Change*	*Nash 8; Yule 19*	*[Ex 3]*
*12.*	*5/26*	*Language Change*
*13.*	*6/2*	*Language Change*
*14.*	*6/9*	*Language Change/(Review)*		*[Ex 4]*
	*6/16*	*FINAL EXAM*

Grades

Midterm exam	25%
Final exam	25%
Report (in pairs)	25%
Exercises	20%
Question of the Week/Discussion	5%

Course objectives

To continue to learn:

what linguistics is, especially with regard to morphology, syntax, semantics, and language change
to think about language as a thing, in order to understand its nature, and from there how we use it in everyday life
to examine our own beliefs about language, languages, and speakers
to observe and analyze, and to write and talk about our observations and analyses

Textbooks

Nash, Thomas. Discovering Language: An Introduction to Linguistics for Chinese Students. Taipei: The Crane, 1986.
Yule, George. The Study of Language (2nd ed.). Cambridge: CUP, 1996.

Recommended reading

Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge: CUP, 1987.
Wardhaugh, Ronald. Investigating Language: Central Problems in Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.