| Fall 2007 | Spring 2008 |

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Weekly Schedule

(All the PPT files are zipped and password-protected.)

Date
Topic
PPT | Video
Reference and Assignment

1. 2/26 T Opening/MORPHOLOGY (1)
Morphology--II (6) Acronyms
Morphology--II (7-10) Back formation~Proper Names
Morphology--II (11-13) Coining~Borrowing
Morphology--III-Inflectional morphology
Morphology--IV-VI (3)
Morphology--VI (4) -VII

(Nash 5, Yule 6 & 7)
2. 2/29 F MORPHOLOGY (2)  
3. 3/4 T MORPHOLOGY (3)  
4. 3/7 F Morphology practice

5. 3/11 T MORPHOLOGY (4) [Report Plans]
6. 3/14 F MORPHOLOGY (5) [Exercise 1] 
7. 3/18 T SYNTAX (1)

Syntax--IV (A-B) Transformational-generative Grammar
Syntax--V-From Deep/Surface Structure to D-/S-Structure
Syntax--VI (A) Universal Grammar: Principles
Syntax--VI (B) Universal Grammar: Parameters
Syntax--IV (C-D) Transformational-generative Grammar

(Nash 6, Yule 8 & 9) 
8. 3/21 F SYNTAX (2)  
9. 3/25 T SYNTAX (3)
10. 3/28 F Syntax practice ¡@
11. 4/1 T SYNTAX (4) [Exercise 2]
12. 4/8 T SYNTAX (5)/WRITING SYSTEMS (Yule 3) 
13. 4/15 T Writing systems practice
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14. 4/18 F Review ¡@
15. 4/22 T Midterm Exam
16. 4/25 F SEMANTICS (1)

Semantics--III (1) sentence meaning
Semantics--III (2) sentence meaning
Semantics--III (3)~IV (1)a: sentence meaning-discourse meaning
Semantics--IV (1)b: cohesion~coherence
Semantics--IV (2): background knowledge~cooperative principle
Semantics--IV (3) Markedness

(Nash 7; Yule 10, 11 & 12)
17. 4/29 T SEMANTICS (2)  
18. 5/2 F SEMANTICS (3)  
19. 5/6 T SEMANTICS (4)  
20. 5/9 F Semantics practice  
21. 5/13 T SEMANTICS (5) [Exercise 3]  
22. 5/16 F LANGUAGE CHANGE (1) (Nash 8, Yule 17) ¡@
23. 5/20 T LANGUAGE CHANGE (2) [Reports]
24. 5/23 F Online course evaluation    
25. 5/27 T LANGUAGE CHANGE (3)

Language Change--Introduction
Language Change--IIA: Phonetic and Phonological Changes
Language Change--IIB: Morpho-Syntactic Changes
Language Change--IIC: Lexical Changes

Language Change--III: Reasons for Change
Language Change--IV: Historical linguistics (1)
Language Change--IV: Historical linguistics (2)
Language Change--IV: Historical linguistics (3) a
Language Change--IV: Historical linguistics (3) b

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26. 5/30 F LANGUAGE CHANGE (4) [Exercise 4] 
27. 6/3 T LANGUAGE CHANGE (5) ¡@
28. 6/6 F Language Change practice/Review  
29.6/10 T Final Review  
   

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