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.
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 …
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.
For next Thursday 2/28, please read the following book sections, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Harley, Heidi. 2006. English Words: A Linguistic Introduction, Sections 6.1-6.5 & Section 9.12. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. (Note: for completeness, I’ve gone ahead and posted the entirety of Chapters 6 and 9 from this book. You are only …
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For next Tuesday (2/19) and Thursday (2/21), please read the following book chapters, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. Carr, Philip. 1999. English Phonetics and Phonology, Chap. 8 (“English word stress”) & Chap. 9 (“The rhythm of English”). Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
For next Tuesday (2/12) and Thursday (2/14), please read the following book chapters, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. (Note that the “Readings” section is password-protected–you can find the password on the first page of the course syllabus.) Hammond, Michael. 1999. The Phonology of English: A Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach, Chapter 3.1-3.2 (English …
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