ENG 300: Linguistics
By appointment, meeting at noon in Bowman 301
Textbook: Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction, 5th ed., by William O'Grady, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff, and Janie Rees-Miller.
Text Website: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/linguistics/

Assessment will be based on participation/preparation and completion of end-of-chapter exercises and additional exercises prepared by Dr. Trupe, along with reports on outside reading and research.

Week 1

Discussion of the text and plan for the semester. Read Chapter 1.

Week 2

First language acquisition, Chapter 11.

Weeks 3-4

Phonetics and phonology, Chapters 2-3

Weeks 5-6

Morphology, Chapter 4; Susan Ohanian, The Great Word Catalogue: Fundamental Activities for Building Vocabulary

Weeks 7-8

Syntax, Chapter 5

Week 9

Semantics, Chapter 6

Week 10

Second language acquisition, Chapter 12

Weeks 11-14

Practical applications of linguistic knowledge. Independent research, to be shared in meetings.