| Dates: | A-Term (18 June – 18 July) |
| Time: | MTWThF 13:10-15:20 |
| Place: | Condon Hall 110A |
| Links: | Catalyst Gradebook |
| Joshua Crowgey | |
| office hours: | by appointment, ART 337 |
| contact: | jcrowgey at uw dot edu |
In this class, we will investigate grammar as a linguistic concept, focusing on methods of linguistic analysis and description of English. Some of the goals of this course are that students become aware of the fact that many properties of language can be described in terms of a limited set of basic linguistic concepts, to develop skills in analyzing the structure of English words and sentences, and to sharpen critical thinking by practicing problem-solving. We take intuitions about language as a starting point and focus on methods of analysis, rather than on memorization of usage rules. An additional goal of this course is that students overcome any "grammar anxiety" they have -- the feeling that grammar is something difficult and mysterious, only useful for "correcting" writing or speech. (As this is a LING course, this class is not designed to help you improve your conversational English (cf. ESL or ELP) or writing skills (cf. ENGL).)
Nightly readings will be required. Most will come from the text Discovering Grammar by Anne Lobeck (2000), but others will be posted online at this page (links will appear on the schedule below).
Students grades will be determined by scores on homeworks, quizzes and a final exam according to the following table:
| component | iterations | when | weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| homeworks | (2 per wk =) 8 | T,Th | 50% |
| quizzes | (1 per wk =) 4 | F | 25% |
| final | 1 | 18 june | 25% |
The final grade will be converted to the University's grading scale by the following map:
| ≥ 95% = 4.0 | 88 = 3.3 | 81 = 2.6 | 74 = 1.9 | 67 = 1.2 |
| 94 = 3.9 | 87 = 3.2 | 80 = 2.5 | 73 = 1.8 | 66 = 1.1 |
| 93 = 3.8 | 86 = 3.1 | 79 = 2.4 | 72 = 1.7 | 65 = 1.0 |
| 93 = 4.7 | 85 = 3.0 | 78 = 2.3 | 71 = 1.6 | 64 = .9 |
| 92 = 3.6 | 84 = 2.9 | 77 = 2.2 | 70 = 1.5 | 63 = .8 |
| 90 = 3.5 | 83 = 2.8 | 76 = 2.1 | 69 = 1.4 | 60-62 = .7 |
| 89 = 3.4 | 82 = 2.7 | 75 = 2.0 | 68 = 1.3 | (< .7 is a failing grade) |
Moodle is an online course management system provided by the Language Learning Center (LLC). This is the system through which students will complete and submit homework assignments.
To access the LING 100 Moodle page, you must create an account (if you do not already have one). Log in to Moodle with your UWNetID: http://wefli4.lang.washington.edu/moodle2/. Once you’re logged in to Moodle, click on the "Linguistics" link in the "course categories" list on the main Moodle page, then click on "LING 100: Fundamentals of Grammar, Summer 2012". You will be asked for an "enrollment key". The key is redcedar. Then click "Enroll me in this course." You need do this only one time to be able to access the course for the quarter.
Short quizzes will take place each Friday at the beginning of class.
The final exam will be on 18 July 2012.
| date | topic | reading | eval |
|---|---|---|---|
| week 1: intro, morphology | |||
| 18 june | introduction, overview knowledge of language components of a grammar | Lobeck pp. 1–10 | |
| 19 june | doing grammar: prescriptive and descriptive approaches | Lobeck pp. 10–18 | hw1 |
| 20 june | introduction to morphology: free and bound morphs processes of derivation and inflection | O&D pp. 115–127; 131–135 | |
| 21 june | compounds and other morphological phenomena | O&D pp. 127–131; 135–142 | hw2 |
| 22 june | syntactic categories: lexical and grammatical | Lobeck pp. 27–31 | q1 |
| week 2: syntax overview, N and NP, V and VP | |||
| 25 june | formal languages, phrase structure rules, recursion evidence for phrases: movement and pronominalization | Lobeck pp. 31–40; 47–61 | |
| 26 june part 2 | evidence for phrases cont'd: coordination nouns: semantic classes, morphology | Lobeck pp. 61–68; 81–85 | hw3 |
| 27 june | noun phrases: Det, Num, Q, PossNP, Wh-Det | Lobeck pp. 86–96 | |
| 28 june part2 | verbs: semantics, morphology inflectional categories of verbs: tense and aspect | Lobeck pp. 109–122 | hw4 |
| 29 june | verb phrases: negation, question formation, AUX | Lobeck pp. 130–143 | q2 |
| week 3: Adj and AdjP, Adv and AdvP | |||
| 2 july part2 | adjectives: semantics, morphology | Lobeck pp. 152–158 | |
| 3 july | adjective phrases: introducers adverbs: semantics, morphology | Lobeck pp. 158–166;175–182 | |
| 4 july | No class, University holiday | hw5 | |
| 5 july | adverb phrases: positions, subclasses | Lobeck pp. 182–185 | |
| 6 july | prepositions: semantics, morphology, introducers | Lobeck pp. 190–198 | q3,hw6 |
| week 4: prepositions, clauses | |||
| 9 july | prepositional phrases: particles, complements, subordinating prepositions | Lobeck pp. 198–205 | |
| 10 july part2 | structure of the clause: subject and predicate clause types types of subordinate clauses | Lobeck pp. 215–233 | hw7 |
| 11 july | complements: subcategorization, subjective, objective | Lobeck pp. 248–254 | |
| 12 july | types of complements: Objective, PP, IO participial, clausal, Wh- | Lobeck pp. 254–259 | |
| 13 july | arguments vs adjuncts, practice identifying complement types | Lobeck pp. 261–270 | q4,hw8 |
| week 5 | |||
| 16 july | course wrap up, overflow day | ||
| 17 july | [class cancelled] special office hours: 9:15 - 10:45, ART 337 | exam review sheet available | |
| 18 july | final exam | ||