Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
Office: | Pearson 105 | |
Office phone: | x6134 | |
Office hours: | T 13:30-15:00 F 10:30-11:30 (Clothier 16) & by appointment also available by messaging on Google Chat | |
Email/messaging: | jwashin1@swarthno scrapers please...more.edu | |
Meeting time: | W 1:15pm-4:00pm | |
Classroom: | Pearson 115 | |
Course website: | http://jnw.domains.swarthmore.edu/ling068 | |
Course Moodle site: | S23 - LING068.01 |
week | date | topic | due (on Monday) | readings |
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1 | 18 Jan | Course outline Sound system | ||
2 | 25 Jan | Sound system Writing systems Morphology and phonology | ||
3 | 1 Feb | More morphology and phonology Pronouns and copulas | ||
4 | 08 Feb | Nominal morphology | Bernard Comrie (1997) - Turkic languages and linguistic typology | |
5 | 15 Feb | More nouns Adjectives Reduplication | Bonnie Krejci & Lelia Glass (2015) - The Kazakh Noun/Adjective Distinction | |
6 | 22 Feb | The lexicon, dictionaries | ||
7 | 1 Mar | Tense/aspect system | ||
08 Mar | Spring break! | |||
8 | 15 Mar | Evidentiality | Christopher Straughn (2011) - Evidentiality in Uzbek and Kazakh (additional resource) | |
9 | 22 Mar | TBA | discussion of movie | |
10 | 29 Mar | Voice | Final project proposal (Fri.) | |
11 | 05 Apr | Non-finite verb forms | Lars Johanson (1995) - On Turkic converb clauses Washington et al. (2022) - Non-finite verb forms in Turkic exhibit syncretism, not multifunctionality | |
12 | 12 Apr | Quotatives "Modal nominals" Ideophones | Jendraschek (2001) - Semantic and structural properties of Turkish ideophones | |
13 | 19 Apr | Kyrgyz and other Turkic languages | Jonathan Washington (2013) - Turkic-Turkic convergence in Altay varieties | |
14 | 26 Apr | The history of Turkic | ||
4 May | (9:00-12:00) Final project presentations! | |||
TBD |