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:
          Cambridge UP, 1996.

Schedule (Spring 2003)
L = lecture; A = activity
NO
DATE
CONTENT
READING
ASSIGNMENT
1 L 2/21 F Spring syllabus/Return final exam and reports (Nash 5; Yule 7 & 8)
2L 2/25 T Morphology Outline
2/28 F Holiday (Peace Memorial Day)
3L 3/4 T Morphology
4A 3/7 F Morphology practice [PRELIMINARY REPORTS]
5L 3/11T Morphology
6A 3/14 F Morphology practice
7L 3/18 T Morphology Handout
(Sample of Collocation)
8A 3/21 F Morphology practice [EX1]
9L 3/25 T Syntax (Nash 6; Yule 9 & 10)
10A 3/28 F Report discussion Handout
(Sample References in Chinese)
11L 4/1 T Syntax Handout
(Sample of Recursiveness )
4/4 F Holiday (Spring Recess)
12L 4/8 T Syntax [EX2]
13A 4/11 Syntax practice
14L 4/15 Syntax
15A 4/18 Review
4/22 T MIDTERM EXAM
16L 4/25 F Writing systems (Yule 2)
17L 4/29 T Semantics (Nash 7; Yule 11, 12, & 13)
18A 5/2 F Report discussion
19L 5/6 T Semantics
20L 5/9 F Semantics
21L 5/13 T Semantics   [REPORTS]
22A 5/16 F Semantics practice
23L 5/20 T Language Change (Nash 8; Yule 19) [EX3]
24A 5/23 F Video-history of the English language (tentative)
25L 5/27 T Language Change
26A 5/30 F Language Change practice
27L 6/3 T Language Change
28A 6/6 F Language Change practice [EX4]
29L 6/10 T Language Change Handout
30A 6/13 F Review
6/17 T FINAL EXAM

Grades
Midterm exam 23%

Final exam 23%
Report (small groups) 25%
Exercises 14%
Other assignments 6%
Participation 9%
Report topics       Guidelines
Questions in Chinese Morphology
The Syntax of Spoken Language
Interpersonal Meaning
Borrowed Words
Language Scrapbook

References
Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Fromkin, Victoria & Robert Rodman. An Introduction to Language. NY: Harcourt Barce, 1998.
Johnson, Keith and Helen Johnson, eds. The Encyclopedia Dictionary of Applied Linguistics: A Handbook for                Language Teaching. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
Wardhaugh, Ronald. Investigating Language: central programs in Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.