Naomi Nagy

Linguistics at U of T

LIN 1152: Variation and Change in Contact Languages

Coarse Course Schedule (Spring 2010) | Course Description

Week

Date

Topic

Everyone reads

(bibliography)

Student presentation of articles

(presentation guidelines)

Assignment due

(assessment)

1

1/7

Introducing ourselves
The Big Questions

Siemund & Kintana '08 Part I

 

2

1/14

Grammatical change & Grammaticization

Heine & Kuteva '05: Chs. 1-3

Heine '08 (DEREK)

 

3

1/21

Methods

Quantifying similarity & change

Schleef & Meyerhoff '09

Auger & Villeneuve '08   (Fr.)

Johanson '08 (SIMONA)
Noonan '08
(DYLAN)
Wilkerson & Salmons '08 (Ger.) (LEANN)

Jeff Good lecture Friday, Jan. 22, at 3:00 in the Ling. Dept.

4

1/28

Null-subjects

 

Mesthrie & Bhatt '08:167-172 (NINA)
Harvie '98 (Eng.) (MEGHAN)
Torres-Cacoullos & Travis '09 (Sp.) (MARIO)
Bayley & Pease-Alvarez '97 (Sp.) (JOANNE)
Heine & Kuteva '05:68-70 (JOANNA)
Otheguy '07 (Sp.) (ALYSIA)

 

5

2/4

Grammaticization, cont.
Guest: James W.

Torres-Cacoullos & Walker '09 (Eng.)

Blondeau & Nagy '08 (Eng., Fr.) (ALEX)

Essay

6

2/11

Borrowability hierarchies

Matras '09 §6.2 & 8.4

Polinsky '95 (JOANNA)

No class – Reading Week

7

2/25

Universals and contact-induced change

Filppula, Klemola & Paulasto '09: 1-16
Stolz '08


Biberauer et al. '09 (ALEX)

Research project proposal (guidelines)

8

3/4

Social factors

Holmes '92

Heine & Kuteva '05 Ch. 6 (JOANNA)
Trudgill ’89 (JOANNE)
Guy ’90 (MARIO)

Lynch '09 (LEANN)

 

9

3/11

Interaction of lexical & grm. borrowing

Auger & Villeneuve '08 -- take 2

Buchstaller & D'Arcy '09 (DYLAN)

Research project abstract and bibliography

10

3/18

Complexity measures & Syntactic theory, & more on the possibility of diachronic universals

Meyerhoff '08
Sampson '09 (now recommended for your free-time reading list)

King '08 (ALYSIA)
Richards '10 (DEREK)
Winford '09 (MEGHAN)

 

11

3/25

Accommodation Theory & Hyperforeignization

Niedzielski & Giles '96

Janda, Joseph & Jacobs '94
(NINA)
Bullock & Gerfen '04 (SIMONA)

Paper outline, including complete lit. review

Naomi lecture on HLVC at York Thurs., Mar. 25 at 5 pm -- might we have some preliminary results to share?

12

4/1

Progress Reports in Class, from everyone

Heine & Kuteva '05 Ch. 7

 

PPT or handout of most important finding(s) for presentation in class

Barbara Johstone lecture at York Thurs., April 1 at 5 pm

Friday, April 9

Final paper due

See bibliography

Updated March 18, 2010

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