Here is the schedule for our upcoming language description presentations:
Tuesday 4/24
Bonnie Z.
Jason L.
Emily K.
Brandon S.
Paul DeC.
Thursday 4/26
Brendan C.
Michael T.
Ally H.
Tino B.
Henrison H.
Tuesday 5/1
Avra K.
Bryn D.
Brian G.
Rylan V.
For next week, 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.
As I mentioned in yesterday’s lecture, the due date for your fourth HW assignment has been extended to Tuesday, April 10.
Your fourth homework assignment is now available for download–just click on the link below for a PDF version. It will be due on Thursday, April 5, at the beginning of class.
For next week, 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. 5 (“Nouns and Determiners”) & Chap. 6 (“Pronouns”). Essex: Longman.
There are two readings for this Thursday, 3/22 and next Tuesday, 3/27:
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. Denison (eds), 109-198. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
The first reading is available at the following link (links to individual chapters can be found on the left side of the homepage):
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/syntax-textbook
The second can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website.
Both of them deal with the following, closely related topics, which will form the basis of our discussions for the next few days:
For next week, 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 auxiliary system. Additionally, I’ve made available Chap. 4 (“The Semantics of the Verb Phrase”) of the same book, which provides a lucid discussion of the meaning differences between various verb forms and auxiliaries. While you certainly do *not* have to read this chapter, it is full of useful information, so I’ve gone ahead and posted it anyway.
Your third homework assignment is now available for download–just click on the link below for a PDF version. It will be due on Tuesday, March 6, at the beginning of class.
For this Thursday (3/1), 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.
If you have not yet finished the Katamba chapter for last Thursday, please do so for next Tuesday (2/28). Also, for next Tuesday, 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 6.3-6.5 & Section 9.12. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.