ASIAN 401 - Introduction to Asian Linguistics

Spring 2007


Week 1

Tuesday (March 27): Languages of North/East/Southeast Asia (pps)
Wednesday (March 28): Languages of South Asia (pps)

Week 2

 

Week 3

Monday (April 8): Superman/Clark Kent phoneme analogy (pps)
Friday (April 12): How to evaluate a language's phonology (pdf)

Week 4

 

Week 5

 

Week 6

Tuesday and Wednesday (May 1-2): Syntax (pps)
Friday (May 4): Movement and agreement (pdf)

Week 7

Monday (May 7): Semantics (pps)
Thursday (May 10): Historical phonology and morphology (pps)

Week 8

 

Week 9

Wednesday (May 23): Asian syntax (pdf)

Week 10

Thursday (May 31): East Asian writing (pps) [if the slideshow fonts don't show up correctly, you can download this pdf version]

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