ENGL 6880: Language and Linguistics Fall 2017
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I am no longer teaching this course. You are welcome to have a look and use or adapt what's useful. But sh/are:CC Some rights reserved: free to share and remix, but attribute and share alike.LanguageAndLinguisticsCourseStatement
Syllabus
Week of 21 Aug
- Required text: Curzan and Adams. How English Works: A Linguistic Introduction. 3rd Edition. Pearson ISBN-13: 978-0205032280 $120 retail. $30 rental. #boycottPearsonPub. Used on Amazon and elsewhere.
- Recommended: Crystal. How Language Works. Avery, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-1583332917
- Introductions, LanguageAndLinguisticsCourseStatement
- for next meeting, Curzan chaps 1-2. selected exercises
- MorgansLinguisticNotes21Aug
- read the language log blog regularly: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/
Week of 28 Aug
- Curzan, chaps 1 and 2. Discussion of selected exercises for chapters
- MorgansNotesOnCurzanChap1and2
Week of 4 Sep
- Labor Day. Keep the red flag flying,
Week of 11 Sep
We now have group access to the BYU Linguistic Corpora: https://corpus.byu.edu. (Thanks to the Library and Tammy B.) I'll give you the log on details in class.Phonology part 1
In class, we'll walk through the chapter's concepts, seeking examples and details, then do some transcription for practice.
- Curzan, chap 3: Phonology. Read the chapter. Locate an IPA keyboard. No need to work with exercises this week. We'll work through the transcription exercises of 3.1 together in class
- Recommended: Crystal, chaps 4-12
- Speech simulation
Week of 18 Sep
- meeting cancelled
- Curzan exercise 3.1.4: A transcription of a short written passage. Hand in one copy to me.
Week of 25 Sep
Read Curzan chap 4: Morphology- In your notes, work through all exercises to discuss
Linguistics at Work
Week of 2 Oct
Read Curzan chap 5: Grammar of Words- In your notes, work through all exercises to discuss
Week of 9 Oct
- Morgan ill. Class meeting cancelled
Week of 16 Oct
Read Curzan chap 6: Phrase Grammar- In your notes, work through exercises TBA
- ENGL6880MidTerm assigned. Read Curzan, chap 9: Stylistics
Week of 23 Oct
- No meeting
- Mid-term due by Tues, 24 Oct
Week of 30 Oct
- Chap 7: Semantics. Work through all the exercises.
Week of 6 Nov
- Morgan out of town. Class meeting cancelled
Week of 13 Nov
- Chaps 8: Spoken Discourse
T-giving Break
Week of 27 Nov
- Chap 10: Language Acquisition, and Chap 11: Language Variation
- Wed 29 Nov 11:00 - 2:00: Review for final exam.
Week of 4 Dec: Last meeting
- Chaps 12: American Dialects
- Final Due Tue 12 Dec, end of day.
