| Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
| Office: | Pearson 105 | |
| Office phone: | x6134 | |
| Office hours: | T 13:30-15:00 & by appointment also available by messaging on Google Chat/Hangouts | |
| Email/messaging: | jwashin1@swarthno scrapers please...more.edu | |
| Meeting time: | M 1:15pm-4:00pm | |
| Meeting modality: | Mixed (in person as possible) | |
| Physical classroom: | Pearson 005 | |
| Online classroom: | Zoom (see Moodle for meeting URL) | |
| Course website: | http://jnw.domains.swarthmore.edu/ling068 | |
| Course Moodle site: | S22 - LING068.01 | |
| week | date | topic | due (on Monday) | readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 Jan | Preparation week | ||
| 2 | 24 Jan | Course outline Sound system | ||
| 3 | 31 Jan | Sound system Writing systems Morphology and phonology | ||
| 4 | 07 Feb | More morphology and phonology Pronouns and copulas | ||
| 5 | 14 Feb | Nominal morphology | Bernard Comrie (1997) - Turkic languages and linguistic typology | |
| 6 | 21 Feb | More nouns Adjectives Reduplication | Bonnie Krejci & Lelia Glass (2015) - The Kazakh Noun/Adjective Distinction | |
| 7 | 28 Feb | The lexicon, dictionaries | ||
| 07 Mar | Spring break! | |||
| 8 | 14 Mar | Tense/aspect system | ||
| 9 | 21 Mar | Dumpling day! | discussion of movie | |
| 10 | 28 Mar | Evidentiality | ||
| 11 | 04 Apr | Voice | Christopher Straughn (2011) - Evidentiality in Uzbek and Kazakh (additional resource) | |
| 12 | 11 Apr | Non-finite verb forms | ||
| 13 | 18 Apr | Quotatives "Modal nominals" Ideophones | Jendraschek (2001) - Semantic and structural properties of Turkish ideophones | |
| 14 | 25 Apr | Kyrgyz and other Turkic languages The history of Turkic | Jonathan Washington (2013) - Turkic-Turkic convergence in Altay varieties | |
| TBD | Final project presentations! |