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.
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 …
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.
For next Thursday (2/23), please read the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website: Katamba, Francis. 2005. English Words: Structure, History, Usage, 2nd ed., Chap. 5 (“A lexicon with layers”). London: Routledge.
For next Tuesday (2/14) and Thursday (2/16), 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.) Carr, Philip. 1999. English Phonetics and Phonology, Chap. 8 (“English word stress”) & …
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For next Tuesday (2/7) and Thursday (2/9), 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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For this Thursday (2/2), please read the following book excerpt, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. Hammond, Michael. 1999. The Phonology of English: A Prosodic Optimality-Theoretic Approach, Chapter 2.1-2.2 (General introduction to the English syllable). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
For this Thursday (1/26) and next Tuesday (1/31), please read the following book chapter, 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.) Giegerich, Heinz. 1992. English Phonology: An Introduction, Chapter 3 (“Some English vowel systems”). Cambridge: Cambridge …
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For next Tuesday (1/24), please read the following book excerpt, which can be downloaded from the “Readings” section of this website. Giegerich, Heinz. 1992. English Phonology: An Introduction, Chapter 8.1-8.2 (Discussion of English allophony). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.