Introduction to Linguistic Theory
Ling 201
UMass Amherst Spring 2022
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Welcome to Introduction to Linguistic Theory: Ling 201!
This is the website for discussion sections AA and AD with Angelica for the Spring '22 semester.
-Section AA meets Fridays in Hasbrouck Lab Room 136 from 1:25pm - 2:15pm
-Section AD meets Fridays in Hasbrouck Lab Room 136 from 10:10am - 11am
On this site you'll find the info about office hours (below), the syllabus, the course schedule, slides from discussions, as well a newsletter which contains announcements and reminders and anything you'll be needing throughout the semester.
About the course:
This course will teach you analytic reasoning through an examination of linguistic data. In the course we'll learn: how the grammars of languages can be treated as formal systems, what principles are responsible for these systems and apply these principles to new linguistic data, how linguistic science breaks the sound stream that corresponds to speech into discrete building blocks and formulates laws that determine how those building blocks combine to form meaningful units. By the end of the course, you will be able to do basic linguistic analysis – modeling the processes that make a continuous stream of sound carry the structures that humans interpret as meaning. You will also be able to express the laws you deduce from linguistic materials using the formalisms developed by linguists.
About me
Hi everyone! I'm Angelica (my friends call me Jelly) and I'm your TA for 201 this semester! My pronouns are she/her. I'm a second year PhD student at UMass' Linguistics Department and specialize in Formal Semantics .
I'm originally from Rochester NY. I received a BA in both Spanish and Philosophy from Fordham University in New York in 2018. During my undergrad, I studied abroad at the University of Seville in Spain, where I took my first logic courses. I was obsessed! That summer I attended the summer school of Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students at the Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich in Germany where I discovered my love for formal semantics. After completing my BA, I went on to receive a MSc. in Logic at the University of Amsterdam at the Institute of Logic, Language, and Computation, where I defended a thesis on the semantics of `only.' And now... here I am at UMass working towards a PhD in semantics! I work on the semantics of Tense and Aspect. I just love verbs and want to understand all the different ways we can refer to moments in time with language.
I speak: English (native), Spanish and Italian (fluent)
Some other things I love:
RHONY, James Baldwin, FKA Twigs, Susan Sontag, my friends in NY and Amsterdam, Greek tragedies, SoulCycle (sorry), my Italian boyfriend, things involving space, Scandinavian crime series. I do NOT like kitchen islands.
How to find me
My office: Integrative Learning Center - office N431E (directions here)
My office hours: Tuesdays 12pm - 2pm
My email: amhill@umass.edu
Zoom link*: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/96264404213 (Meeting ID: 962 6440 4213)
*I will be hosting office hours on Zoom for those of you that are uncomfortable with meeting in person, or are unable to attend office hours in person. I ask that you email me the day before to let me know you'd like to meet over Zoom!
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