Course outline and contact info: Course outline revised 5/19/2008
Class 1: Introduction. What's special about English? Class 1 PPT
Reading:
- Quiz next Monday on word elements from ch. 1 (pp. 12-14) and ch. 2 (pp. 36-37).
- Exercises (optional):
1. Choose a few element study exercises from the text, pp. 14-16. Highly recommended: #2 (idi), #4, #5, #7, #10.
2. Choose a few exercises from the text, pp. 17-18. Recommended: #1, #3, #5.
Class 2: History of English, 450 A.D. to present. Class 2 PPT
Quiz next Monday on word elements from ch. 3 (pp. 68-70).
Exercises (optional):
1. Choose a few element study exercises from the text, pp. 70-71. Highly recommended: #3, #4.
2. Choose a few exercises from the text, pp. 72-72. Recommended: #6, #7, #8.
Class 3: Word formation. Class 3 PPT
Here are copies of slides 46 to 55 for Class 3 . The version shown in class didn't have the proper linguistic fonts: Class 3 Slides 46 to 55
Quiz next Monday on word elements from ch. 4 (pp. 90 -92). Please read chapters 4 and 5 before class.
Exercises (optional):
1. Choose a few element study exercises from chapter 4 (pp. 92-93). Highly recommended: #2, #4, #5.
2. Choose a few exercises from chapters 4 (p. 94) and 5 (pp. 110-111). Recommended from chapter 4: #3; from chapter 5: a few lines from #1, #2, and #3.
Also due on April 21: a one-page prospectus on your term project. Along with describing your topic, please state what you expect to find. You won't be held to this, but it will lead you to look for real conclusions. For more suggestions on the term project, see the course outline.
Class 4: Allomorphy; phonetics. Class 4 PPT
Quiz next Monday on word elements from ch. 5 (pp. 107-108). Please read chapter 6 before class.
Exercises (optional):
1. Choose a few element study exercises from chapter 6 (pp. 132-133). Recommended: #1, #2.
2. Choose a few exercises from chapter 6 (pp. 133-135). Recommended: #2, #3.
Class 5: Regular allomorphy; numerals. Class 5 PPT
Quiz next Monday on numerals from ch. 6 (p. 129) and word elements from ch. 6 (pp. 131-132). Please read chapter 7 before class.
Class 6: Numerals; meaning change. Class 6 PPT
Quiz next Monday on word elements from ch. 8 (pp. 166-168). Please read chapter 8 before class.
Exercises (optional): Choose a few exercises from chapter 6 (pp. 152-156). Recommended: #1, #6, #7.
Extra assignment: Whether you are taking the class for credit or not, please keep a log for a while of word uses that catch your interest, esp. uses that don't match what you'd normally do yourself. These can come from reading, speech, dreams, whatever.
If possible, email the log to leben@stanford.edu by noon on Monday, 12 May, and I'll circulate them in our evening session for discussion and analysis by the group.
Here's a sample log but please follow your own reactions, since one of the things we can learn from this exercise is, within a group that speaks more or less the same language, what different judgments are made about what is and what is not normal.
Class 7: Usage and variation. Class 7 PPT
Quiz next Monday on word elements from ch. 9 (pp. 181-183). Please read chapter 10 for class.
Exercises: Do exercise #2 on p. 206. Here is a printable copy: EXERCISE
Class 8: Indo-European and its modern descendants. Class 8 PPT
Quiz Monday, June 2, on word elements from ch. 10 (pp. 201-204) and ch. 11 (pp. 213-216). If you took the quiz for chapter 10 last time, you'll be able to take a quiz on chapter 9 this time.
Please read chapter 9 for class.
Class 9: Latin and Greek morphology; new words. Class 9 PPT
Because time was so short, we couldn't do this exercise in class. But please give it a try:
Class exercise on medical terms
Answers to exercise on medical terms
Here are copies of the presentations from our final class:
Joseph Brunner