Teaching
Spring 2018: Linguistics 201, Introduction to Linguistic Theory
- The course Syllablus
- Lecture 1: The idea of a natural language
- Lecture 2: Natural languages from a linguistic perspective
- Lecture 3: Articulatory Phonetics. Consonants
- Lecture 4: Articulatory Phonetics. Vowels
- Handout 1: The International Phonetic Alphabet
- Assignment 1 (Key)
- Lecture 5: Phonology – Phonemes and Allophones
- Assignment 2 (Key)
- Lecture 6: Phonology – Simple allophone problems
- Lecture 7: Introducing phonological features
- Handout 2. Feature chart
- Assignment 3 (Key)
- Lecture 8: Syllables and syllabification
- Assignment 4 (Key)
- Lecture 9: Coda constraints
- Lecture 10: Derivational morphemes
- Assignment 5 (Key)
- Lecture 11: Inflectional morphemes
- Handout 4: Phonology problems practice
- Lecture 12. Syntax: Introduction
- Assignment 6 (Key)
- Lecture 13. Syntax: Recursive Phrase Structure Rules
- Handout 5: Phrase structure rules
- Assignment 7 (Key)
- Lecture 14. Syntax: Lexical Insertion and Movement
- Lecture 15. Introduction to set theory
- Assignment 8 (Key)
- Optional assignment on syntax (Key)
- Lecture 16: Introducing semantics
- Lecture 17: Quantificational determiners
- Assignment 9 (Key)
- Lecture 18. Pragmatics: scalar implicatures
- Handout 6: Midterm 2 Review
- Handout 7: Review for the Final. Part 1
- Lecture 19: Abstract syntactic representations for semantics