For Tuesday 4/13, please read the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website (PDF format): Cruse, D. Alan. 1986. Opposites, Part I: Complementaries and antonyms. From Lexical Semantics (Chapter 9). Â Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Note: sections 9.1-9.5 are required. Â Sections 9.6-9.8 are optional.)
Remember that I’ve cancelled our class meeting for Thursday April 8, in order to provide you with an opportunity to attend the following two lectures by Prof. James McCloskey (University of California, Santa Cruz): “Sex and the Irish Language: The Cultural Politics of Language Attrition” Thursday April 8 @ 7:30pm, KCB 101 Abstract: A belief …
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For Tuesday 4/6, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website (PDF format): Jespersen, Otto. 1917. Negation in English and Other Languages. Copenhagen: A.F. Host. (excerpt)
For Thursday 4/1, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website (PDF format:) Postal, Paul. 2004. The structure of one type of American English Vulgar Minimizer. In Skeptical Linguistic Essays (Chap. 5). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
I’m posting a PDF version of the handout from class today regarding your second language description write-up. Â Remember that the second write-up is due on Thursday, April 1 (not on Thursday March 25, as was originally listed on the syllabus). Language Description Write-up #2: Ideas, Tips, and Suggestions
For Tuesday 3/23, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website (PDF format): Martin, Stefan and Walt Wolfram. 1998. The sentence in African-American Vernacular English. In African-American English: Structure, history, and use, S. Mufwene et al. (eds), 11-36. London: Routledge. Pay particular attention to the discussion of …
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For Tuesday 3/16 and Thursday 3/18, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website (PDF format): Zeijlstra, Hedde. 2007. Negation in natural language: On the form and meaning of negative elements. Language and Linguistics Compass 1: 498-518.
For next Tuesday, please read the following papers, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” sections of this website: 1. Ladusaw, W. (1980) “On the notion ‘affective’ in the analysis of negative-polarity items” (pages 1-7) 2. Fauconnier, G. (1978) “Implication reversal in a natural language” (pages 289-295; those of you who have taken Semantics 1 …
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For next Thursday, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Zwicky, Arnold M. & Geoffrey K. Pullum. 1983. Cliticization vs. Inflection: English n’t. Language 59: 502-513. In the paper, Zwicky and Pullum ask whether n’t should really be considered a contracted form of not (as ‘ve …
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For next week, please read the following paper, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Zanuttini, Raffaella. 1994. Re-examining negative clauses. In Paths Towards Universal Grammar: Studies in Honor of Richard S. Kayne, G. Cinque et al. (eds), 427-451. Georgetown University Press. Most likely, we will not get to the reading until Thursday 2/11.  Tuesday’s …
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