Linguistics 300, F13, Undergraduate tutorial

	Time Place	M W 2-3:30 Williams 633
Instructor: Dr. Beatrice Santorini	Email Office Office hours Phone	beatrice@sas.upenn.edu Williams 602 M W 3:30-5 or by appointment 215 898 5829
Teaching assistant: Einar Freyr Sigurðsson	Email Office Office hours	einarsig@ling.upenn.edu Williams 402 F 10-12

This course covers two projects, one from syntax and the other from phonology:

the rise of auxiliary do and related issues in the history of English
changes in word stress in French loanwords into English

As the semester proceeds, I will fill in the syllabus below with assignments and related links.

(Due) date Assignment Type Notes
Rise of do support in English
ongoing Background reading for syntax project.
W Aug 28 Introductions and preliminaries. Introduction to syntax project.
Web-based searches of the Penn Parsed Historical Corpora of English (PPCHE).
M Sep 2 Labor Day - no class
W Sep 4 A1 A In class: Continue web-based searches of the PPHCE.
M Sep 9 A2 B Submit written answers to Questions 3 and 7-11 to Einar Sigurðsson.
Guidelines for submission.
M Sep 23 A3 B Submit to Einar Sigurðsson.
Material past this point subject to slight revision.
M Oct 21 A4 C Syntax project due (submit to Beatrice Santorini).
Guidelines for content and style.
Stress shift in French loanwords into English
ongoing Background reading for phonology project.
M Oct 21 Introduction to phonology project.
W Nov 27 Day before Thanksgiving - no class
M Dec 9 Last class.
Th Dec 19 C Phonology project due (submit to Beatrice Santorini).
Guidelines for content and style.

(Due) date	Assignment	Type	Notes
Rise of do support in English
ongoing			Background reading for syntax project.
W Aug 28			Introductions and preliminaries. Introduction to syntax project. Web-based searches of the Penn Parsed Historical Corpora of English (PPCHE).
M Sep 2			Labor Day - no class
W Sep 4	A1	A	In class: Continue web-based searches of the PPHCE.
M Sep 9	A2	B	Submit written answers to Questions 3 and 7-11 to Einar Sigurðsson. Guidelines for submission.
M Sep 23	A3	B	Submit to Einar Sigurðsson.
Material past this point subject to slight revision.
M Oct 21	A4	C	Syntax project due (submit to Beatrice Santorini). Guidelines for content and style.
Stress shift in French loanwords into English
ongoing			Background reading for phonology project.
M Oct 21			Introduction to phonology project.
W Nov 27			Day before Thanksgiving - no class
M Dec 9			Last class.
Th Dec 19		C	Phonology project due (submit to Beatrice Santorini). Guidelines for content and style.

Background reading for syntax project

Kroch and Santorini 2007
- Chapter 6, The verb movement parameter, provides the basic background for the grammatical changes that we will be investigating.
Kroch, Anthony. 1989. Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change. Language variation and change 1:3, 199-244.
- The paper is also available from Tony Kroch's online papers page. The download link is here. The graphs are easier to read there than at the LVC site.
- Focus on Section 3, which describes and discusses the quantitative development of auxiliary do and related changes in the verbal syntax of English. (The paper as a whole presents the so-called Constant Rate Hypothesis, and the rise of auxiliary do is one of several case studies supporting the hypothesis.)
Warner, Anthony. 2005. Why DO dove: Evidence for register variation in Early Modern English negatives. Language variation and change 17:3, 257-280.
- This paper re-examines some of the data in Kroch 1989 and attributes certain irregularities in the rise of auxiliary do to sociolinguistic re-evaluation rather than to grammatical reanalysis.

Background reading for phonology project

Notes on word stress.