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| Date | Content | Reading | Homework | |
| 1. | 2/23 | Spring Syllabus/Morphology | Nash
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Yule 7 & 8 |
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| 2. | 3/2 | |||
| 3. | 3/9 | [Preliminary reports] | ||
| 4. | 3/16 | [Ex 1] | ||
| 5. | 3/23 | Syntax | Nash
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Yule 9 & 10 |
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| 6. | 3/30 | |||
| 7. | 4/6 | [Ex 2] | ||
| 8. | 4/13 | |||
| 4/20 | MIDTERM EXAM | |||
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4/27 |
Semantics | Nash 7
Yule 11, 12, & 13 |
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| 10. | 5/4 | |||
| 11. | 5/11 | [Reports] | ||
| 12. | 5/18 | Semantics/Language Change | Nash
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Yule 19 |
[Ex 3] |
| 13. | 5/25 | Language Change/Review | ||
| 14. | 6/1 | |||
| 15. | 6/8 | [Ex 4] | ||
| 6/15 | FINAL EXAM |
[TOP]
| Midterm Exam | 25% |
| Final Exam | 25% |
| Report (in pairs) | 30% |
| Exercises | 15% |
| Question of the Week/Discussion | 5% |
[TOP]
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 to analyze, and to write and talk about our observations and analyses
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Nash, Thomas. Discovering Language: An Introduction to Linguistics for Chinese Students. Taipei: The Crane, 1986.
Yule, George. The Study of Language (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
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Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987.
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Syllabus