Introduction to Linguistics I: Morphosyntax
Zeit und Ort:
Do 10:00 - 12:00, SR 127
Topics
- 2009-04-16 Introduction
- 2009-04-23 Linguistic subfields: psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics,
language acquisition
- 2009-04-30 Linguistic subfields: historical linguistics, typology
- 2009-05-07 Describing grammar: the basics
Reading: Huddleston and Pullum (=HP), chapter 1 and 2
Handout
- 2009-05-14 Morphology I
Reading: Huddleston and Pullum (=HP), chapter 16
Homework assignment: HP, p. 289, # 1,2,10,16
- 2009-05-28 Morphology II
Homework assignment: HP, p. 290, # 17,18
- 2009-06-04 Verbs I
Reading: HP, chapter 3
Homework assignment:
1. HP, p. 60, # 5, p. 61, #9
2. Why do HP classify the English auxiliary 'will' as a modal auxiliary? Does
the German auxiliary 'werden' behave similarly?
- 2009-06-11 Verbs II
Reading: HP, chapter 4
Homework assignment:
HP, p. 62, # 16, 19, 20
- 2009-06-18 Constituents; sentence structure
Reading: HP, chapter 4
Homework assignment: HP, p. 80-81, # 1-3, 6, 8, 10
In addition, show that the underlined strings of words in exercise one are
constituents (use the constituent tests).
- 2009-06-25 NPs
Reading: HP, chapter 5
Homework assignment: HP, p. 110-11, # 1, 5.
- 2009-07-02 Subordinated clauses
- 2009-07-09 Revision
- 2009-07-16 Final exam
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