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 ) |
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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 |
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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. |