Highlighted items are future plans that
may be subject to adjustment.
More detailed information will be added as the semester proceeds.
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Aug 23 | intro / phonetics
Intro to course: Japanese and linguistics Vowels of Japanese |
Aug 25
Consonants of Japanese Phonetics, phonology, writing |
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Aug 30 | phonology
Intro to phonology Mental sound patterns |
Sept 1
Phonological analysis: Sounds that change in context |
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Sept 6
Segmental phonology: Phonological rules |
Sept 8
Segmental phonology: Alveolar and alveopalatal obstruents |
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Sept 13
Prosodic categories: Moras and syllables |
Sept 15
Pitch accent Review for exam |
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Sept 20
EXAM #1 |
Sept 22 | morphology
Intro to morphology Adjective morphology |
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Sept 27
Verb morphology and phonology |
Sept 29
Verb morphology and phonology, cont. |
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Oct 4
Nouns, adjectival nouns, and adjectives Compounds and rendaku |
Oct 6 | syntax
Compounds and rendaku, cont. Constituents and sentence structure |
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Oct 11
X-bar structures for Japanese Subcategorization and empty categories |
Oct 13
Relationships: Thematic roles, case Structure of "double ga" sentences |
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Oct 18
Flexible word order Configurationality, scrambling |
Oct 20
No class -- Fall Break |
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Oct 25
Case particles and postpositions Review for exam |
Oct 27
EXAM #2 |
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Nov 1 | projects
Final project information Designing project materials |
Nov 3 | sociolinguistics
In-group and out-group Verbs of giving and receiving |
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Nov 8
Language, gender, and politeness |
Nov 10 | discourse (etc.)
The topic marker -wa |
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Nov 15 | semantics
Tense and aspect |
Nov 17 | historical linguistics
Historical phonology: Determining older pronunciations |
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Nov 22
Historical phonology, cont. Is Japanese related to any other language? |
Nov 24
No class -- Thanksgiving |
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Nov 29
Dialect differences Language change in progress |
Dec 1 | summing up
Observing Japanese in action Course overview and conclusions |
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Dec 6
Grad student presentations |
Final exam period:
>> Tu Dec 13, 4:00pm <<