| Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
| Office: | Pearson 105 | |
| Office phone: | x6134 | |
| Office hours: | T 13:30-15:00 | |
| Email: | jwashin1@swarthno scrapers please...more.edu | |
| Meeting time: | W 1:15pm-4:00pm | |
| Classroom: | Perason 115 | |
| Course website: | http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/jwashin1/ling068 | |
| Course moodle site: | F18 - LING068.01 | |
| week | date | topic | due (by class) | readings | additional materials / readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 05 Sep | Course outline Sound system | |||
| 2 | 12 Sep | Sound system Writing system(s) Basic morphology and phonology | |||
| 3 | 19 Sep | More morphology and phonology Pronouns and copulas | |||
| 4 | 26 Sep | Case system | Assignment 3 | Bernard Comrie (1997) - Turkic languages and linguistic typology | |
| 5 | 03 Oct | More nouns Adjectives Reduplication | Assignment 4 | Bonnie Krejci & Lelia Glass (2015) - The Kazakh Noun/Adjective Distinction | |
| 6 | 10 Oct | The lexicon, dictionaries Food! | Assignment 5 | ||
| 17 Oct | Fall break! | ||||
| 7 | 24 Oct | Tense/aspect system | Assignment 6 | Irina Nevskaya & Saule Tazhibayeva (2018) - The category of proximative in North-Western Turkic: Kazakh and Kirgiz in a comparative perspective | |
| 8 | 31 Oct | Voice | Assignment 7 | Nedjalkov (2003) - Kirghiz reciprocals (/2) | |
| 9 | 07 Nov | Evidentiality | Assignment 8 | Christopher Straughn (2011) - Evidentiality in Uzbek and Kazakh | |
| 10 | 14 Nov | Non-finite verb forms | Assignment 9 | Lars Johanson (1995) - On Turkic converb clauses | |
| 11 | 21 Nov | Quotatives "Modal nominals" Ideophones | Assignment 10 | Jendraschek (2001) - Semantic and structural properties of Turkish ideophones | |
| 12 | 28 Nov | Kyrgyz and other Turkic languages | Assignment 11 | Jonathan Washington (2013) - Turkic-Turkic convergence in Altay varieties | |
| 13 | 05 Dec | The history of Turkic | Assignment 12 | ||
| 14 Dec | (9:00a.m. - 12:00p.m.) Final project presentations! |