Here is the schedule for our upcoming language description presentations: Thursday 4/25 Emily Camarata Bethany Reynolds Priscilla Vele Tuesday 4/30 Brett Adam Serrie Hamilton Desirée Okoh Samantha Twadell Thursday 5/2 Alicia Anger Kendrea Collins Brandon Epstein Courtney Nedwick
For next Tuesday 4/16, please read the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Greenbaum, Sidney & Randolph Quirk. 1990. A Student’s Grammar of the English Language, Chap. 12 (“Pro-forms and Ellipsis”). Essex: Longman.
Your foruth homework assignment is now available for download–just click on the link below for a PDF version. It will be due on Thursday, April 11, at the beginning of class. HW4 (due Th 4/11 @ beg. of class)
For next week, please read the following book chapters, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Greenbaum, Sidney & Randolph Quirk. 1990. A Student’s Grammar of the English Language, Chap. 5 (“Nouns and Determiners”) & Chap. 6 (“Pronouns”). Essex: Longman.
If you have not yet completed the following reading (which was originally assigned for last week, but we are running a bit behind), then please do so for Tuesday 4/2: Section 3.5 (“Word Order”) of Fischer, Olga & Wim van der Wurff. 2006. Syntax. In A History of the English Language, R. Hogg & D. Denison …
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There are two readings for next week: Chapter 14 (“The Verb-Second (V2) Phenomenon”) of Santorini, Beatrice & Anthony Kroch. 2007-. The Syntax of Natural Language: An Online Introduction Using the Trees Program. Section 3.5 (“Word Order”) of Fischer, Olga & Wim van der Wurff. 2006. Syntax. In A History of the English Language, R. Hogg & D. …
For this Thursday 3/21, please read the following book chapter: Chapter 6 (“The Verb-Raising Parameter”) of Santorini, Beatrice & Anthony Kroch. 2007-. The Syntax of Natural Language: An Online Introduction Using the Trees Program. The first part of the chapter reviews our previous discussion of the English verbal system, and can be skimmed. The second half …
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For this Thursday (3/7), please read the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Greenbaum, Sidney & Randolph Quirk. 1990. A Student’s Grammar of the English Language, Chap. 3 (“Verbs and Auxiliaries”). Essex: Longman. As the chapter title suggests, the reading presents an (entirely descriptive) overview of the English verb and …
Your third homework assignment is now available for download–just click on the link below for a PDF version. It will be due on Friday, March 8, at 5pm. Since we do not have a class meeting on Friday 3/8, please submit your assignment either via email, or by delivering a hard copy to my office. (Of course, …
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For next Tuesday (3/5), please read the following article, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Zwicky, Arnold & Geoffrey Pullum. 1983. Cliticization vs. inflection: English n’t. Language 59: 502-513.