This schedule will be a work in progress essentially until the final begins. Do not rely on the printed copy; instead, consult this page (http://ling.bu.edu/blogs/lx500a1s10/schedule/ ). Homework will generally be assigned on Thursdays and due on the following Thursday. The readings in the Readings column are those that pertain to the lectures that week.
| Date | Topic | Handout | Homework | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu Sep 3 | Introduction | Survey | ||
| Tue Sep 8 | Information packaging | Chafe (1976) | ||
| Thu Sep 10 | Referential status and givenness | (No homework) | Gundel et al. (1993) | |
| Tue Sep 15 | CONTRASTIVE-Contrastive reduplication | Ghomeshi et al. (2004) | ||
| Thu Sep 17 | “HW1” | |||
| Tue Sep 22 | Focus perception | HW2 | Krahmer & Swerts (2008) | |
| Thu Sep 24 | Second occurrence focus | Büring (2008) | ||
| Tue Sep 29 | (No handout) | (No homework) | ||
| Thu Oct 1 | Syntactic effects of focus and contrast | “HW3” | Vallduvà (1995) | |
| Tue Oct 6 | Morphological focus marking | Hartmann & Zimmermann (2006) | ||
| Thu Oct 8 | Focus and intervention effects | (See readings page) | (No homework) | (No readings) |
| Tue Oct 13: Monday schedule, no class | ||||
| Thu Oct 15 | Focus, intervention effects, prosodic well-formedness | (No homework) | (No readings) | |
| Tue Oct 20 | ||||
| Thu Oct 22 | Take-home “midterm” (HW4) | |||
| Tue Oct 27 | Compositional tunes | Hobbs (1990), Pierrehumbert & Hirschberg (1990) | ||
| Thu Oct 29 | (See readings page) | (No homework) | ||
| Tue Nov 3 | Deriving focus stress | Selkirk (1996), Schwarzschild (1999) | ||
| Thu Nov 5 | Ellipsis and parallelism | (No handout) | Fox (1999) | |
| Tue Nov 10 | Focus movement and NPIs | Wagner (2006) | ||
| Thu Nov 12 | Project specs | |||
| Tue Nov 17 | Acquisition of focus | (See readings page) | (Project preparation) | Thornton (2002) |
| Thu Nov 19 | Contrastive topics | Büring (2003), Portner & Yabushita (1998) | ||
| Tue Nov 24 | Wh-the-hell | (No handout) | Den Dikken & Giannakidou (2002) | |
| Thu Nov 26: Fall recess, no class | ||||
| Tue Dec 1 | Acquisition of pragmatics in Albanian (Kapia, in progress), the double object construction | (Project preparation) | Göbbel (2005) | |
| Thu Dec 3 | TBA | TBA | ||
| Tue Dec 8 | Project presentations | AA DG JF JH EK DL HL JL MQ | ||
| Thu Dec 10 | AB WB ND RD MG TK SP AR KR | |||
| Semester ends | ||||