| Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
| Office: | Pearson 105 | |
| Office phone: | x6134 | |
| Office hours: | W 13:30-15:00 & by appointment | |
| Email/messaging: | jwashin1@swarthno scrapers please...more.edu | |
| Lecture Time: | TTh 9:55-11:10 a.m. | |
| Classroom: | Science Center 256 | |
| Course website: | http://jnw.domains.swarthmore.edu/ling052 | |
| Course moodle site: | F26 - LING052.01 | |
| week | date | topic | reading | due | presentations (expand…) | materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 Sep | Introductions, syllabus What/why is Historical Linguistics Intro to history of English | ||||
| 3 Sep | Intro to Historical Ling (ctd) Typology of language change | |||||
| 2 | 8 Sep | Typology of language change (ctd) | HW1 | D'Arcy et al. (2013) - Asymmetrical trajectories: The past and present of -body/-one Hickey (2012) - Early English and the Celtic Hypothesis | ||
| 10 Sep | Lexical and semantic change | |||||
| 3 | 15 Sep | Lexical and semantic change | HW2 | Zenner et al. (2014) - Core vocabulary, borrowability and entrenchment Wales (2004) - Second Person Pronouns in Contemporary English: The End of a Story or Just the Beginning? Thomas Grano (2006) - “Me and her” meets “he and I”: Case, person, and linear ordering in English coordinated pronouns OR Van Engen (2007) - Coordinated Pronoun Variation in American English | ||
| 17 Sep | Sound change | |||||
| 4 | 22 Sep | Sound change | HW3 | Michaud, Jacques, & Rankin (2012) - Historical transfer of nasality between consonantal onset and vowel: From C to V or from V to C? | ||
| 24 Sep | Sound system change | |||||
| 5 | 29 Sep | Sound system change | Haspelmath (2006) - Against markedness Matisoff (2006) - Genetic versus Contact Relationship: Prosodic Diffusibility in South-East Asian Languages | |||
| 1 Oct | Morphological and Syntactic change | |||||
| 6 | 6 Oct | Morphological and Syntactic change | DeLancey (2001) - The mirative and evidentiality Cutler, Hawkins, & Gilligan (1985) - The suffixing preference: a processing explanation Vennemann (2002) - On the Rise of ‘Celtic’ Syntax in Middle English | |||
| 8 Oct | Relatedness between languages | |||||
| 13 Oct | No class — Fall break! | |||||
| 15 Oct | No class — Fall break! | |||||
| 7 | 20 Oct | Relatedness between languages The comparative method | Jacques & List (2019) - Save the trees: Why we need tree models in linguistic reconstruction (and when we should apply them) Matras (2005) - The classification of Romani dialects - A geographical-historic perspective Wichmann et al. (2010) - Homelands of the world's language families: A quantitative approach Georg et al. (1998) | |||
| 22 Oct | The comparative method | |||||
| 8 | 27 Oct | The comparative method | ||||
| 29 Oct | Internal reconstruction | |||||
| 9 | 3 Nov | No class — Election day! | ||||
| 5 Nov | Internal reconstruction | |||||
| 10 | 10 Nov | The origin and propagation of change | ||||
| 12 Nov | The origin and propagation of change | Nagy (2011) - Lexical change and language contact: Faetar in Italy and Canada | ||||
| 11 | 17 Nov | Language contact and linguistic areas | ||||
| 19 Nov | Language contact and linguistic areas | Thomason & Kaufman (1989) - Contact-Induced Language Change: An Analytic Framework Masica (2001) - The Definition and Significance of Linguistic Areas: Methods, Pitfalls, and Possibilities (with Special Reference to the Validity of South Asia as a Linguistic Area) Haspelmath (2001) - The European linguistic area: Standard Average European Friedman (2006) - The Balkans as a Linguistic Area Matras & Sakel (2007) - Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence | ||||
| 12 | 24 Nov | Language shift, planning, and revitalisation | ||||
| 26 Nov | No class — Thanksgiving / National Day of Mourning | |||||
| 13 | 1 Dec | Language shift, planning, and revitalisation | McWhorter (2006) - Creole Transplantation: A source of solutions to resistant anomalies Burling (2009) - The Lingua Franca Cycle: Implications for Language Shift, Language Change, and Language Classification | |||
| 3 Dec | Language and prehistory | Garrett (2000) - A new model of Indo-European Subgrouping and Dispersal Ringe (2009) - The Linguistic Diversity of Aboriginal Europe Stemberger (1979) - Reconstructing the Proto-Indo-Europeans Starostin (2012) - Dene-Yeniseian: a critical assessment (and Vajda’s reply) | ||||
| 14 | 8 Dec | Historical linguistics in the lab | Sneller & Roberts (2018) - Why some behaviors spread while others don’t: A laboratory simulation of dialect contact | |||
| TBA | Language family presentations |