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 |
|
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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
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Friday, April 9 |
Final paper due |