1. Introduction to
course and general comments on syllabus and policies for semester.
2. General Introduction
on Human Language
Reading: LIR: “Language: An Introduction” by W. F.
Bolton [3-15].
**[61-73 in 6th
edition]
3. General Introduction
on Human Language (cond.)
Reading: LIR: “Nine Ideas about Language” by
Harvey A. Daniels [17-34]. **[43-62
in 6th edition]
4. The Origins of
Language
Reading:
LIR: “Comparative and Historical Linguistics” by Jeanne H.
Herndon [599-603]. **[411-415 in 6th
edition]
5. The Origins of
Language (cond.)
Reading:
LIR: “The Indo-European Language” by Paul Thieme [604-613]. **Not
in 6th edition.
6. The Origins of
Language (cond.)
Reading:
LIR: “Relationship of Some Indo-European Languages with Detail of
English Dialects” by Jeanne H. Herndon [614-615]. **Not in 6th
edition.
7. The Child’s
Acquisition of Language
Language Acquisition Device Theory
Reading: LIR: “The Acquisition of Language” by Breyne Arlene Moskowitz [85-111]. **[529-555 in 6th edition]
8. The Child’s
Acquisition of Language
Language Acquisition Device Theory
Reading:
LIR: “Predestinate Grooves: Is There a Preordained Language
‘Program’?” by Jean Aitchison [117-135]. **[560-579 in 6th edition]
9.
Second Language Acquisition (SLA):
Myths & Facts, Child versus Adult: Relative SLA Efficiency, “Natural” versus “Cognitive” SLA Styles
Reading:
LIR: “Learning and Using a Second Language” by Jeannine Heny
[160-187]. **Not in 6th edition.
10. First Quiz
Language Families of the World
11. Europe & Eurasia
- Indo-European Family
Reading:
LIR: “A Brief History of English” by Paul Roberts [616-625].
**[420-430
in 6th edition]
12. Europe & Eurasia
- Indo-European Family (cond.)
Reading:
KLW: “Indo-European languages” [10-11].
13.
Europe & Eurasia - Indo-European Family (cond.)
Readings:
KLW: “Germanic languages” & “Romance languages” [12-13] +
English [39-43], German [66-68], Dutch [69], Icelandic [74-75], Danish [77],
Norwegian [78], Swedish [79], Yiddish [102-103]; + French [48-50], Spanish
54-55], Portuguese [60-61], Italian 62-63], Latin [64-65], Rhaeto-Romanic [73],
Romanian [94]
14. Europe & Eurasia
- Indo-European Family (cond.)
Readings:
KLW: “Celtic languages” [13-14] + Welsh [44], Gaelic [46], Breton
[51]
15.
Europe & Eurasia - Indo-European Family (cond.)
Readings:
KLW: “Slavic languages” & “Baltic languages” [14-15]
+ Russian [110-111], Polish [84], Czech [86],
Slovak [87], Slovenian [90], Serbian [91], Croatian [92], Bulgarian [95],
Macedonian [96]; + Lithuanian [106], Latvian [107]
16.
Europe & Eurasia - Indo-European Family (cond.)
Readings:
KLW: “Iranian languages” & “Indic languages” [15-16]
+ Persian [162-163], Pashto [164-165], Kurdish
[166-167], Tajik [143], Ossetian [122-123]; +Hindi [172-173], Urdu [174-175],
Bengali [186-187], Punjabi [176-177], Marathi [184], Gujarati [183], Oriya
[188], Assamese [189]
17. Europe & Eurasia
- Uralic Family, Altaic Family
Readings:
KLW: “Uralic languages” [16-17]; “Altaic languages” [18-19] +
Finnish [81], Hungarian [88-89], Estonian [104-105]; + Turkish [152-153],
Azerbaijani [116-117], Uzbek [110-111], Turkmen [138-139], Kazakh [142],
Mongolian [202-203], Kalmyk [132], Buryat [147], Sibo [212]
18. Europe & Eurasia
- Nakh-Daghestanian Family [aka: Caucasian Languages]
Readings:
KLW: “Caucasian languages” [19-20] + Georgian [118-119],
Kabardian [124], Chechen [126], Avar [127]
19. South &
Southeast Asia - Sino-Tibetan Family
Readings:
KLW: “Sino-Tibetan languages” [22] + Chinese [204-207], Yi
[210-211], Naxi [213], Burmese [218-219], Tibetan [199]
20. South &
Southeast Asia - Dravidian Family
Readings:
KLW: “Dravidian languages” & “Munda languages” [20-21] +
Telugu [192], Kannada [193], Tamil [194-195]
21. South & Southeast
Asia - Tai-Kadai Family - Independent languages
Readings:
KLW: “Mon-Khmer languages” [22-23] + Khmer [225], Vietnamese
[226-227]; + Japanese [214-215], Korean [216-217]
22. Second Quiz
23. Africa & the
Middle East
Afro-Asiatic Family
Readings: KLW: “Niger-Congo languages” [26-27] + Swahili [302-303], Kikuyu [310-311], Luba
[312], Lingala [313], Kongo [314], Ganda [315], Ruanda [316], Rundi [317],
Nyanja [318], Bemba [319], Shona [320-321], Zulu [324], Xhosa [325], Sotho
[326], Tswana [327], Swazi [328]; +Malinke [290], Wolof [291], Yoruba [292],
Ibo [293], Mende [294], Kpelle [295], Akan [296], Fon [297], Ewe [298]
24.
Afro-Asiatic Family (cond.)
Readings:
KLW: “Afro-Asiatic languages” [27-29] + Arabic [154-155], Hebrew
[156-157], Amharic [304-305], Maltese [168], Somali [308], Oromo [306], Coptic
[158-159], Hausa [288]
25. Nilo-Saharan Family
Readings:
KLW: “Chari-Nile languages” [29-30]; “Khoisan languages” [30] +
Hottentot [329], Bushman [330]
26. Pacific
Austronesian Languages, Melanesian Languages
Reading:
KLW: “Austronesian languages” [23-24]; “Papuan languages” [24] +
Malay [222-223], Indonesian [228-229], Sundanese [231], Tagalog [238-239],
Maori [242], Chamorro [243], Marshallese [244], Fijian [245], Samoan [246],
Tahitian [247], Tongan [248], Malagasy [331]
27. Australia
Aboriginal Languages
Readings:
KLW: “Australian languages” [25]; “Paleo-Asiatic languages”
[25-26] + Aranda [236]; Chukchi [150]
28. The Americas
South America
Aztec-Tanoan, Hokan-Siouan, Mayan, Oto-Manguean,
Penutian, Totomac
Readings:
KLW: “American Indian languages” [30-32] + Quechua [284], Guarani
[283], Aymara [286]
29. North America
Eskimo-Aleut, Algic, Mosan, Na-Dene,
Hokan-Siouan, Penutian, Aztec-Tanoan
Readings: KLW: (“A I l” cond.) + Cree
[256], Ojibwa [257], Navajo [259], Cherokee [260-261], Sioux [262], Blackfoot
[263], Crow [264], Seneca [265], Mohawk [266-267], Choctaw [268-269], Chickasaw
[270], Fox [271], Creek [272-273], Osage [274], Delaware [275], Papago [276],
Nahuatl [277], Maya [278-279], Zapotec [280], Mixtec [281];
“Eskimo-Aleut
languages” [26] + Eskimo [252-253], Aleut [254]
30. Third Quiz
31. Pidgins &
Creoles
Readings: LIR: “Pidgins and Creoles” by
David Crystal [563-569] **[321-327 in 6th edition]; KLW:
“Pidgin and creole languages” [32-33] + Tok Pisin [235], Papiamento [282]
32. Artificial Languages
Reading: KLW: “Artificial Languages” [32] +
Esperanto [334-335]
33. Writing Systems of
the World
Alphabets,
Syllabaries, Pictographies
Reading: LIR: “Languages and Writing” by John
P. Hughes [664-681].
**[705-722 in
6th edition]
34. Non-Verbal Human
Communication
Body & Sign Language, Symbolic Language
Reading:
LIR: “Sign Language” by George Yule [647-654].
**Different article with same title in 6th
edition.
35. Non-Verbal Human Communication (cond.)
Reading: LIR: “Nonverbal Communication” by
George A. Miller [655-662].
**[96-104 in 6th
edition]
Comprehensive Final Exam:
Monday, April 28, 2003, at 11:00 AM.