| Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
| Office: | Pearson 105 | |
| Office phone: | x6134 | |
| Office hours: | W 13:30-15:00 F 10:30-11:30 & by appointment | |
| Email/messaging: | jwashin1@swarthno scrapers please...more.edu | |
| Meeting time: | M 1:15pm-4:00pm | |
| Classroom: | Pearson 115 | |
| Course website: | http://jnw.domains.swarthmore.edu/ling068 | |
| Course Moodle site: | F24 - LING068.01 | |
| week | date | topic | due (on Monday) | linguistic readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 Sep | Course outline Sound system | ||
| 2 | 16 Sep | Sound system Writing systems Morphology and phonology | ||
| 3 | 23 Sep | More morphology and phonology Pronouns and copulas | ||
| 4 | 30 Sep | Nominal morphology | Bernard Comrie (1997) - Turkic languages and linguistic typology | |
| 5 | 7 Oct | More nouns Adjectives Reduplication | Bonnie Krejci & Lelia Glass (2015) - The Kazakh Noun/Adjective Distinction | |
| 14 Oct | Fall break! | |||
| 6 | 21 Oct | The lexicon, dictionaries | ||
| 7 | 28 Oct | Tense/aspect system | ||
| 8 | 4 Nov | Evidentiality | Christopher Straughn (2011) - Evidentiality in Uzbek and Kazakh (additional resource) | |
| 9 | 11 Nov | TBA | discussion of movie | |
| 10 | 18 Nov | Voice | Final project proposal (Wed.) | |
| 11 | 25 Nov | Non-finite verb forms | ||
| 12 | 2 Dec | Quotatives "Modal nominals" Ideophones | Jendraschek (2001) - Semantic and structural properties of Turkish ideophones | |
| 13 | 9 Dec | Kyrgyz and other Turkic languages The history of Turkic | Washington (2013) - Turkic-Turkic convergence in Altay varieties Washington (2023) - What Can We Learn From the Mongolic Material in Kazakh and Kyrgyz? | |
| 17 Dec | (9:00-12:00) Final project presentations! | |||
| TBA |