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Course design and materials development:
Hubert Truckenbrodt

Original web pages:
Kathrin Eichler
Sonja Lohrengel
Hubert Truckenbrodt

Maintained by:
Sam Featherston
Last change 23.11.2010

Dates

Topic

Handouts

Literature

Syntax

19 Oct.
21 Oct.

Categories
Heads and phrasal projections

Course information
Syntax 1 HO

Morphology:'Language Files', Chapter 5 (Neuphilologie Library: GG 740.655)

Syntax: Fromkin et al: 'Linguistics' p.89ff, 132 ff. (Neuphilologie Library: GG 740.943)

Generative perspective on linguistics: Baker: 'The atoms of language' (Neuphilologie Library: QD 110.161)

Pinker: 'The Language Instinct'  (Neuphilologie Library: GU 170.302)
Or in German 'Der Sprachinstinkt' (Neuphilologie Library: GU 170.303)

Links to tree fonts
Treeform Tree Drawer
Java
Doulos SIL Font

26 Oct.
28 Oct.

Heads and complements
Head-complement order in English and German

Syntax 2 HO

2 Nov.
4 Nov.

Arguments and adjuncts
Series of verbs

Syntax 3 HO
 

9 Nov.
11 Nov.

Finite verbs
English clauses
German clauses

Syntax 4 HO

 

16 Nov.
18 Nov.

Yes/no questions

syn5HO
syn6HO  

23 Nov.
25 Nov.

Wh-questions
German main clauses

syn7HO

30 Nov.
2 Dec.

German embedded clauses

syn8HO
syn9HO

7 Dec.
9 Dec.

Review session
exam on 9th December

syn10HO
Review handout
Practice exam  

Semantics (and pragmatics)

14 Dec.
16 Dec.

Informal semantics:
Semantic relations; aspects of meaning

Informal semantics: O'Grady et al.: 'Contemporary linguistics', Ch.6 (Library Neuphil: GG 740.788)

Formal semantics:
First chapters of Heim & Kratzer: 'Semantics in generative grammar'
(Library Neuphil.: GH 520.273)

Pragmatics: Levinson: 'Pragmatics'
(Library Neuphil: GL 010.159)

21 Dec.



23.Dec

Formal semantics: Simple sentences, some quantifiers

Revision Opportunity

11 Jan.
13 Jan.

Pragmatics:
Presuppositions

18 Jan.
20 Jan.

Implicatures
Def./indef. article

25 Jan.
27 Jan.

Speech acts

1 Feb.

Review session