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