| Professor: | Jonathan North Washington | |
| Office: | Pearson 105 | |
| Office phone: | x6134 | |
| Office hours: | T&W 13:15-14:45 | |
| Email: | jwashin1@swarthno scrapers please...more.edu | |
| Lecture Time: | M 1:15-4:00pm | |
| Classroom: | Beardsley 318 | |
| Course website: | http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/jwashin1/ling052 | |
| Course moodle site: | S19 - LING052.01 | |
| week | date | topic | reading (by Monday) | due (by Thursday) | presentations (expand…) | materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23 Jan | Introductions, syllabus What/why is Historical Linguistics Intro to history of English | ||||
| 2 | 28 Jan | Intro to Historical Ling (ctd) Typology of language change | HW1 | D'Arcy et al. (2013) - Asymmetrical trajectories: The past and present of -body/-one
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| 3 | 4 Feb | Lexical and semantic change | HW2 |
Thomas Grano (2006) - “Me and her” meets “he and I”: Case, person, and linear ordering in English coordinated pronouns OR Van Engen (2007) - Coordinated Pronoun Variation in American English | ||
| 4 | 11 Feb | Sound change | HW3 | Michaud, Jacques, & Rankin (2012) - Historical transfer of nasality between consonantal onset and vowel: From C to V or from V to C? | ||
| 5 | 18 Feb | Sound system change | Haspelmath (2006) - Against markedness Matisoff (2006) - Genetic versus Contact Relationship: Prosodic Diffusibility in South-East Asian Languages | |||
| 6 | 25 Feb | Morphological and Syntactic change | DeLancey (2001) - The mirative and evidentiality Cutler, Hawkins, & Gilligan (1985) - The suffixing preference: a processing explanation Vennemann (2002) - On the Rise of ‘Celtic’ Syntax in Middle English | |||
| 7 | 4 Mar | Relatedness between languages | Matras (2005) - The classification of Romani dialects - A geographical-historic perspective Wichmann et al. (2010) - Homelands of the world's language families: A quantitative approach Georg et al. (1998) | |||
| 11 Mar | Spring break! | |||||
| 8 | 18 Mar | The comparative method | ||||
| 9 | 25 Mar | Internal reconstruction | ||||
| 10 | 1 Apr | The origin and propagation of change | Nagy (2011) - Lexical change and language contact: Faetar in Italy and Canada | |||
| 11 | 8 Apr | Language contact and linguistic areas | Thomason & Kaufman (1989) - Contact-Induced Language Change: An Analytic Framework Masica (2001) - The Definition and Significance of Linguistic Areas: Methods, Pitfalls, and Possibilities (with Special Reference to the Validity of South Asia as a Linguistic Area) Haspelmath (2001) - The European linguistic area: Standard Average European Friedman (2006) - The Balkans as a Linguistic Area Matras & Sakel (2007) - Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence | |||
| 12 | 15 Apr | Language birth, death, planning | McWhorter (2006) - Creole Transplantation: A source of solutions to resistant anomalies Burling (2009) - The Lingua Franca Cycle: Implications for Language Shift, Language Change, and Language Classification | |||
| 13 | 22 Apr | Language and prehistory | Garrett (2006) - Convergence in the Formation of Indo-European Subgroups: Phylogeny and Chronology Ringe (2009) - The Linguistic Diversity of Aboriginal Europe Stemberger (1979) - Reconstructing the Proto-Indo-Europeans Starostin (2012) - Dene-Yeniseian: a critical assessment (and Vajda’s reply) | |||
| 14 | 29 Apr | Historical linguistics in the lab | TBA | Sneller & Roberts (2018) - Why some behaviors spread while others don’t: A laboratory simulation of dialect contact | ||
| TBA | Language family presentations |