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-blogs.bu.edu/lx518f11/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.
| Theme | Date | Topic | Handout | Homework | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction | Tue Sep 6 | Introduction | Survey | No reading | |
| Types of focus |
Thu Sep 8 | Information packaging | Reading, notes, questions | Chafe (1976) | |
| Tue Sep 13 | Givenness Hierarchy | Gundel et al. (1993) | |||
| Contrastive reduplication |
Thu Sep 15 | CONTRASTIVE-contrastive reduplication | HW1 | Ghomeshi et al. (2004) | |
| Tue Sep 20 | |||||
| Perceiving focus stress |
Thu Sep 22 | Perceiving focus | HW2 | Krahmer & Swerts (2008) | |
| Predicting focus stress |
Tue Sep 27 | Second occurrence focus, AvoidF, GIVENness | Büring (2008); also Schwarzschild (1999:141-151, 166-176), Selkirk (1996) | ||
| Thu Sep 29 | No homework | ||||
| Compositional tunes |
Tue Oct 4 | Compositional tunes | Pierrehumbert & Hirschberg (1990) (to p. 288) | ||
| Syntax | Thu Oct 6 | Focus movement (mostly, in Basque) | Arregi (2001:1-18) | ||
| Tue Oct 11 | HW3 | ||||
| Intervention effects |
Thu Oct 13 | Intervention effects and focus | Beck (2006:1-17) | ||
| Tue Oct 18 | No homework | ||||
| Thu Oct 20 | Anti-topic effecs | HW4 | Tomioka (2007) | ||
| Syntax and morphology |
Tue Oct 25 | Focus, intervention effects, prosodic well-formedness | Kitagawa (2005) | ||
| Thu Oct 27 | No homework | ||||
| Acquisition | Tue Nov 1 | Acquisition of focus, BUCLD pre-briefing | |||
| Thu Nov 3 | No class | ||||
| Fri-Sun Nov 4-6: BUCLD | |||||
| Tue Nov 8 | Wh-the-hell | (Project proposal) | Den Dikken & Giannakidou (2002:31-36, 45-48, 52-58) | ||
| Topics | Thu Nov 10 | Ellipsis and deaccenting | Project preparation | Fox (1999) | |
| Tue Nov 15 | Focus movement and NPIs | Wagner (2006) | |||
| Thu Nov 17 | Discourse structure | Büring (2003) | |||
| Tue Nov 22 | Acquisition of pragmatics | Thornton (2002) | |||
| Thu Nov 24: Fall recess, no class | |||||
| Tue Nov 29 | L2 acquisition of focus | (Project preparation) | No reading | ||
| Assessment | Thu Dec 1 | Wrap-up | |||
| Presentations | Tue Dec 6 | SB, BC, JN, CP | (Project write-up) | ||
| Thu Dec 8 | RH, EK, AK, CK, AW | ||||
| Semester ends | |||||