| Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
| Office: | Pearson 105 | |
| Office phone: | x6134 | |
| Office hours: | M 3:45-5:15pm, T 1:15-2:45pm, by appointment | |
| Email: | jwashin1@swarth... | |
| Lecture Time: | M 6:30-9:15pm | |
| Classroom: | Trotter Hall 203 | |
| Course website: | http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/jwashin1/ling052 | |
| Course moodle site: | F16 - LING052.01 | |
| week | date | topic | reading (by Monday) | due (by Thursday) | presentations (expand…) | materials |
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| 1 | 29 Aug | Introductions, syllabus What/why is Historical Linguistics Intro to history of English | ||||
| 2 | 5 Sep | Intro to Historical Ling (ctd) Typology of language change | HW1 |
Hickey (2012) - Early English and the Celtic Hypothesis | Canterbury tales prologue [ glossed | recording | more recordings ] | |
| 3 | 12 Sep | Lexical and semantic change | HW2 |
Wales (2004) - Second Person Pronouns in Contemporary English: The End of a Story or Just the Beginning?
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| 4 | 19 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? | ||
| 5 | 26 Sep | Sound system change | Haspelmath (2006) - Against markedness Matisoff (2006) - Genetic versus Contact Relationship: Prosodic Diffusibility in South-East Asian Languages | |||
| 6 | 3 Oct | Morphological and Syntactic change | DeLancey (2001) - The mirative and evidentiality
Vennemann (2002) - On the Rise of ‘Celtic’ Syntax in Middle English | DeLancey (2001) [ slides | handout ] Vennmann (2002) [ slides | handout ] | ||
| 10 Oct | Fall break! | |||||
| 7 | 17 Oct | Relatedness between languages |
Wichmann et al. (2010) - Homelands of the world's language families: A quantitative approach | Turkic isogloss exercise [ handout | blank map of Eurasia | beginning of isogloss map ] | ||
| 8 | 24 Oct | The comparative method | ||||
| 9 | 31 Oct | Internal reconstruction | ||||
| 10 | 7 Nov | The origin and propagation of change | Nagy (2011) - Lexical change and language contact: Faetar in Italy and Canada | videos: [ Interview with Labov | Northern Cities vowel shift ] Northern Cities vowel shift: [ map | vowel chart | [æ] "tensing" in North American English ] Nagy (2011) slides | ||
| 11 | 14 Nov | Language contact and linguistic areas | Thomason & Kaufman (1989) - Contact-Induced Language Change: An Analytic Framework
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 | Thomason & Kaufman (1989) [ slides | handout ] Haspelmath (2001) [ slides | handout ] Friedman (2006) [ slides | handout ] | ||
| 12 | 21 Nov | Language birth, death, planning |
| McWhorter (2006) - Creole Transplantation: A source of solutions to resistant anomalies
Georg et al. (1998) - Telling General Linguists about Altaic | McWhorter (2006) [ slides | handout ] Georg et al. (1998) [ slides | handout ] | |
| 13 | 28 Nov | Language and prehistory | Garrett (2006) - Convergence in the Formation of Indo-European Subgroups: Phylogeny and Chronology Ringe (2009) - The Linguistic Diversity of Aboriginal Europe
Starostin (2012) - Dene-Yeniseian: a critical assessment (and Vajda’s reply) | Garrett (2006) [ slides ] Ringe (2009) [ slides | handout ] Starostin (2012) [ slides | handout ] | ||
| 5 Dec | No class! | |||||
| 12 Dec | Language family presentations (19:00-22:00) |