Note: the following schedule is subject to change.
| Week | Date | Topic | Reading | Assignments |
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| 1 | Th 1/17 | Course Overview; Requirements | ||
| 2 | Tu 1/22 | Consonantal Phones, Phonemes, & Allophones | Giegerich, Chap. 2 | |
| Th 1/24 | Giegerich, §8.1-8.3; Optional: Minkova & Stockwell, pgs. 36-42 |
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| 3 | Tu 1/29 | English Vowel Systems | Giegerich, Chap. 3; Optional: Minkova & Stockwell, pgs. 29-36 |
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| Th 1/31 | Class Cancelled | |||
| 4 | Tu 2/5 | English Vowel Systems (cont.) | (same as Tu 1/29) | |
| Th 2/7 | Syllabification & Syllable Structure | Hammond, §2.1-2.2 | HW1 due | |
| 5 | Tu 2/12 | Carr, Chap. 7; Hammond, §3.1-3.2 |
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| Th 2/14 | ||||
| 6 | Tu 2/19 | Stress, Rhythm & Metrical Structure | Carr, Chaps. 8 & 9 | |
| Th 2/21 | HW2 due | |||
| 7 | Tu 2/26 | NO CLASS | ||
| Th 2/28 | Two Kinds of (Morpho-)Phonologial Rules | Harley, §6.1-6.5, §9.12 | Lang. Desc. 1 due | |
| 8 | Tu 3/5 | -n’t: Contraction vs. Inflection | Zwicky & Pullum 1983 | |
| Th 3/7 | Verbs, Verb Phrases & Sentences | Greenbaum & Quirk, Chaps. 3 & 4 | HW3 due (F 3/8 @ 5pm) |
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| Spring Break (Sa 3/9 – Su 3/17) | ||||
| 9 | Tu 3/19 | Verbs, Verb Phrases & Sentences | Greenbaum & Quirk, Chaps. 3 & 4 | |
| Th 3/21 | Historical Development of the English Verbal System | Santorini & Kroch, Chap. 6 | ||
| 10 | Tu 3/26 | V2 Word Order in the Modern Germanic Languages | Santorini & Kroch, Chap. 14 | |
| Th 3/28 | Lang. Desc. 2 due | |||
| 11 | Tu 4/2 | V2 Word Order in the History of English | Fischer & van der Wurff, §3.5 | |
| Th 4/4 | Subjects & Subject Positions | |||
| 12 | Tu 4/9 | Nouns & Determiners | Greenbaum & Quirk, Chaps. 5 & 6 | |
| Th 4/11 | HW4 due | |||
| 13 | Tu 4/16 | Ellipsis & Related Phenomena | Greenbaum & Quirk, Chap. 12 | |
| Th 4/18 | NO CLASS | |||
| 14 | Tu 4/23 | Ellipsis & Related Phenomena | ||
| Th 4/25 | Student Presentations | |||
| 15 | Tu 4/30 | Student Presentations | ||
| Th 5/2 | Student Presentations | |||
| 16 | Th 5/9 | Final Paper Due @ 5pm | ||