LING 068 — Spring 2023
Structure of Kyrgyz

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@swarth...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

Course Syllabus

Schedule (updated periodically)

weekdatetopicdue
(on Monday)
readings
1 18 Jan

Course outline

Sound system

2 25 Jan

Sound system

Writing systems

Morphology and phonology

Assignment 1

Abigail Kaun (2004) - The Typology of Rounding Harmony

3 1 Feb

More morphology and phonology

Pronouns and copulas

Assignment 2

Hanzhi Zhu (2018) - Sonorant Restrictions in Kyrgyz

4 08 Feb

Nominal morphology

Assignment 3

Bernard Comrie (1997) - Turkic languages and linguistic typology

5 15 Feb

More nouns

Adjectives

Reduplication

Assignment 4

Bonnie Krejci & Lelia Glass (2015) - The Kazakh Noun/Adjective Distinction

6 22 Feb

The lexicon, dictionaries

Assignment 5

Final project topic selection (Fri.)

7 1 Mar

Tense/aspect system

Assignment 6

Irina Nevskaya & Saule Tazhibayeva (2018) - The category of proximative in North-Western Turkic: Kazakh and Kirgiz in a comparative perspective

08 Mar Spring break!
8 15 Mar

Evidentiality

Assignment 7

Christopher Straughn (2011) - Evidentiality in Uzbek and Kazakh (additional resource)

9 22 Mar

TBA

discussion of movie

10 29 Mar

Voice

Assignment 8

Final project proposal (Fri.)

Nedjalkov (2003) - Kirghiz reciprocals (/2)

11 05 Apr

Non-finite verb forms

Assignment 9

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

Assignment 9

Jendraschek (2001) - Semantic and structural properties of Turkish ideophones

13 19 Apr

Kyrgyz and other Turkic languages

Assignment 11

Jonathan Washington (2013) - Turkic-Turkic convergence in Altay varieties

14 26 Apr

The history of Turkic

Assignment 12

4 May

(9:00-12:00) Final project presentations!

TBD

Final project writeup