Spring, 2002 Nash/Yuan
To learn:
*What linguistics is;
*Some basic knowledge in this field;
*To think about language as a thing, apart from its everyday uses and meanings, so that we can understand what those uses and meanings are, and how they are achieved;
*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.
L = lecture; A = activity
1 2/26 T L: Spring syllabus/Morphology (Nash 5; Yule 7 & 8)
2 3/1 F A: Morphology practice
3 3/5 T L: Morphology
4 3/8 F A: Morphology practice [PRELIMINARY REPORTS]
5 3/12 T L: Morphology
6 3/15 F A: Morphology practice
7 3/19 T L: Morphology
8 3/22 F L: Syntax (Nash 6; Yule 9 & 10) [EX1]
9 3/26 T L: Syntax
10 3/29 F L: Syntax (Group A only)
11 4/9 T L: Syntax
12 4/12 F A: Syntax practice [EX2]
13 4/16 T L: Syntax
14 4/19 F A: Review
4/23 T MIDTERM EXAM
15 4/26 F L: Writing systems
16 4/30 T L: Semantics (Nash 7; Yule 11, 12, & 13)
17 5/3 F A: Semantics practice
18 5/7 T L: Semantics
19 5/10 F A: Semantics practice
20 5/14 T L: Semantics [REPORTS]
21 5/17 F A: Video—history of the English language (tentative)
22 5/21 T L: Language Change (Nash 8; Yule 19) [EX3]
23 5/24 F A: Video—history of the English language (tentative)
24 5/28 T L: Language Change
25 5/31 F A: Language Change practice
26 6/4 T L: Language Change
27 6/7 F A: Language Change practice
28 6/11 T L: Language Change [EX4]
29 6/14 F A: Review
6/18 T FINAL EXAM
Midterm exam 23%
Final exam 23%
Report (in small groups) 25%
Exercises 14%
Participation 9%
Other assignments 6%
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.
Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.