ENG 701: PRINCIPLES OF LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Last Update: November 22

FIXED LINKS

The download links are fixed.

COURSE ORGANIZATION

Due to class lectures and presentations by students, the schedule has changed a little bit. I'll update it very soon.

MORPHOLOGY MATERIAL

Let me provide you with a few more sources on morphology (a little bit late, perhaps, especially for the presentations... -- APOLOGIES!)

CONFERENCE

Let me remind you again of the supercool workshop / conference which will take place at TETYK Hotel in Protaras on November 26-28 (Friday 11am to Sunday 5pm). The GACL-homepage can be found at http://www.punksinscience.org/kleanthes/GACL/index.html. You're all welcome -- please let me know as soon as possible whether you will attend and whether you will stay overnight: 10 CYP per person per night per double-room, half-board (breakfast & lunch), with one dinner party being paid for and all refreshments provided.

FINAL EXAM

Good news: the final exam will be a take-home exam. I will hand out a list of questions and tasks which you will have to answer to the best of your knowledge. It will be due on December 17. It can now be downloaded here. (I will hand it out in class November 23.)

SYNTAX MATERIAL

I enrich the technical discussion of a minimalist theopry of syntax by the following sourceå

I can also make available Core Syntax:A Minimalist Approach, by David Adger (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). For copyright reasons, I won't list it here; email me if you're interested -- or purchase your own copy from Moufflon Bookshop; it's a really good book. In addition to chapters 18 and 19 from our course textbook, I can certainly recommend reading chapters 2 to 4 on morpho-syntactic features, checking theory, constituency tests, and structure-building (Merge, Adjoin, Move).

MORE MATERIAL

Andrew McIntyre's lecture notes on syntax and phonetics & phonology might be of interest as summaries of (some of) the most important issues. Bear in mind that the terminology / details might differ somewhat from what we're doing here, but these notes certainlyserve their purposes.

ABSTRACTS

We'll talk a little bit more about the abstracts next class (Tuesday, November 23). Bear in mind that this is not an abstract summarizing a paper -- this type of abstracts is your advertisement for something interesting you have to say and would like to present at a conference (even if our abstracts are going to be "mock abstracts"). Go to any of these recent conference pages to see how this is done (you'll notice that theoretical abstracts are more what I'm after: one to two pages, rather than just a short paragraph as is common in sociolinguistics, for example): ConSOLE, Indexical, Speech Acts & Logophors, Demoting the Agent, Mercator, Sociolinguistic Perspectives on AGE, GALA North America [then go all the way to the bottom and click on detailed schedules], or look around yourself (see, for example, LINGUIST List for conference announcements).