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CLASS READINGS

For those of you who simply can't stand showing up in class totally unprepared or who are not able to soak in all the information from a class without additional readings, here is a class-by-class reading list. (Anyone else should feel free to check these readings out too!) It will be updated as we go along. These sections, chapters, or articles either contain further information on the issues presented in class or introduce you to the topic of the next class.

 

 

DATE	TOPIC	FOLLOW-UP	PREPARATION
JAN 24	Historical Linguistics	Pyles & Algeo 1982: chs. 1-3 [contains a lot of semi-technical background] Robinson 1992: ch. 1 Denison 1993: ch. 1	Barber 1993: ch. 2 Hogg 1992: ch. 2
JAN 27	The External History of English	Baugh & Cable 2002: ch. 2 www.localhistories.org/timeline.html www.britannia.com/history [more on British history]	Baugh & Cable 2002: ch. 2 Pyles & Algeo 1982: ch. 4
JAN 31	The Pre-History of English	Barber 1993: chs. 3-4 Robinson 1992: ch. 2 [also chs. 3-5 on other old Germanic languages] Strang 1970: ch. IX Pyles & Algeo 1982: ch. 4 titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/didact/idg/idgmorph.htm homepage.mac.com/ebranscomb/courses/HEL/Germanic.html www.duerinck.com/tribes1.html www.krysstal.com/langfams.html	Barber 1993: ch. 5 Baugh & Cable 2002: chs. 3-4 Crystal 2004: ch. 1 Fischer et al. 2000: ch. 1 Pyles & Algeo 1982: ch. 5 Hogg 1992: chs. 3-4
FEB 3	The Emergence of English	Lass 1994: chs. 1-2 Freeborn 1992: ch. 1 Baugh & Cable 2002: ch. 3 Denison 1993: ch. 2 www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/courses/1001Brewer.htm www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/texts/asc www.hightowertrail.com/SLT2000/Northumbria.htm	Strang 1970: ch. VIII Crystal 2002: ch. 2 Crystal 2004: ch. 1 & interl. 1
FEB 7	Properties of Old English Grammar	Lass 1994: chs. 3-8 Freeborn 1992: ch. 2 Pyles & Algeo 1982: ch. 5 Denison 1993: chs. 2-3 Strang 1970: chs. VI-VIII www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/OEA/index.html www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/rawl/IOE www.yorksj.ac.uk/dialect/OEphon.htm	Crystal 2004: ch. 3 & interl. 3
FEB 10	Syntactic Features of Old English	Fischer et al. 2000: chs. 4-6 Strang 1970: chs. VI-VIII	Crystal 2004: ch. 4 & interl. 4 Lass 1994: ch. 9 Fischer et al. 2000: ch. 2
FEB 14	Old English Varities	members.tripod.com/babaev/archive/grammar44.html#10 Hogg 1992: “Old English Dialects” (by T. E. Toon)	Crystal 2004: ch. 2 & interl. 2
FEB 17	CLASS PRESENTATIONS	PLEASE GO TO PRESENTATIONS PAGE !
FEB 21	CLASSES POSTPONED TO APR 20 [WED!]
FEB 24
FEB 28	Breakdown of the Inflectional System	Freeborn 1992: ch. 3	Crystal 2002: ch. 4 Crystal 2004: ch. 5 & interl. 5
MAR 3	Properties of Middle English Grammar	Freeborn 1992: chs. 4-7 Baugh & Cable 2002: ch. 7 Pyles & Algeo 1982: ch. 6	Strang 1970: chs. IV-V
MAR 7	Word Order Changes in Early English	Fischer et al. 2000: chs. 4-6	Millward 1989: ch. 6
MAR 10	Syntactic Features of Middle English	Fischer et al. 2000: chs. 7-8	Fischer et al. 2000: ch. 3
MAR 14	GREEN MONDAY – NO CLASS !
MAR 17	CLASS PRESENTATIONS	PLEASE GO TO PRESENTATIONS PAGE !
MAR 21	Introduction to Corpus Linguistics	[These are two guest lectures taught by Dr. Marc Kaunisto from the English Department of the University of Tampere in Finland for which no special reading will be assigned.]
MAR 24	Middle English Morphology
MAR 28	The Great Vowel Shift	Görlach 1991: ch. 6 Baugh & Cable 2002: ch. 8	Pyles & Algeo 1982: ch. 7 Barber 1993: ch. 8
MAR 31	The Early Modern English Period	Freeborn 1992: chs. 8-10 Pyles & Algeo 1982: ch. 7	Strang 1970: chs. II-III
APR 4	Syntactic Features of Early Modern English	Pyles & Algeo 1982: ch. 8	READINGS
APR 7	CLASS PRESENTATIONS	PLEASE GO TO PRESENTATIONS PAGE !
APR 11	The Grammar of Creoles	READINGS	READINGS
APR 14	CLASS POSTPONED TO APR 20 [WED!]
APR 18	Accents and Dialects	Pyles & Algeo 1982: ch. 9	READINGS
APR 20	CLASS PRESENTATIONS	PLEASE GO TO PRESENTATIONS PAGE !
APR 21	Presentation Recap	the sources cited in the handouts	all presentation handouts / notes