Linguistics 101:  Introduction to Language     Winter 2004

Scott DeLancey      Straub 227     346-3901  delancey@darkwing

Text:     Clark et. al., Language: Readings in Language and
          Culture


Course Web page: 


     http://www.uoregon.edu/~delancey/courses/101/101page.html

Course requirements:

     Exams:                   Midterm 25%, Final 30%
     Research assignments:    each 15%

Exams:  The midterm will be on Friday, February 13.  The
final will be given in this room at 10:15 on Wednesday, March 17.

Schedule of lectures

Day       Topic                                           Reading

1/5       Language and Species
1/7       Characteristics of Human Language                 7, 49
1/9       Written & spoken language, prescriptive & descriptive
          grammar                                              34
                             (442-451 optional, 451-466 required)
1/12      Phonetics and Phonology                              10
1/14      Morphology                                       12, 13
1/16      Syntax I: Parts of speech, constituent structure 15, 16

1/19      Martin Luther King Day, no classes held
1/21      Syntax II:  Grammatical relations and meaning
1/23      Syntax III: Clause combining

1/26      Problems of semantics
1/28      Prototypes & meaning                                 17
2/30      Metaphor and meaning; semantic change

2/2       First language acquisition                       41, 42
2/4       Second language acquisition
2/6       Dialects                                         20, 21

2/9       Register and social dialect                      22, 24
2/11      Language and social identity                     25, 27

2/13      MIDTERM EXAM

2/16      Languages in contact
2/18      Pidgins, creoles, linguae francae                    23
2/20      Language change                                      30

2/23      Language families of the world                       31
2/25      The external history of English                      32
3/27      Historical changes in English

3/1       Sources of English vocabulary
3/3       Languages of the U.S.                            36, 38
3/5       Language and the brain                               48

3/8       Language and thought                                 47
3/10      Writing systems & literacy                           51
3/12      Review