Linguistics 300, F12, Undergraduate tutorial

	Time Place	M W 2-3:30 Williams 633
Instructor: Dr. Beatrice Santorini	Email Office Office hours Phone	beatrice@babel.ling.upenn.edu Williams 602 M 3:30-5 or by appointment 215 898 5829
Teaching assistant: Akiva Bacovcin	Email Office Office hours	bacovcin@ling.upenn.edu Williams 401 F 8-10

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

the rise of auxiliary do in the history of English
stress shift 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 Sep 5 Introductions and preliminaries.
Web-based searches of the Penn Historical Corpora of English.
M Sep 10 A1 A
F Sep 14 A2 B Submit written answers to Questions 3, 5, and 7, and 10 to Akiva Bacovcin. Remember to include Ling300, the assignment number, and your last name in the subject line.
M Sep 24 A3 B Submit to Akiva Bacovcin.
W Sep 26 At some point around here, we can discuss questions that you have about the readings for the syntax project.
M Oct 22 Fall break - no class.
T Oct 23 A4 C Syntax project due (submit to Beatrice Santorini).
Note change in due date.
Guidelines for content and style.
Stress shift in French loanwords into English
W Oct 24 A5 A Introduction to stress shift project.
Notes on word stress.
W Oct 31 A6 B Until further notice, submit assignments to Akiva Bacovcin.
Please continue to report any errors you find in the spreadsheet even after the deadline.
W Nov 7 A7 B
W Nov 14 A8 B
M Nov 19 In-class discussion of possible topics for A9.
Please note corrections to A9 spreadsheet: 19 Nov 2012
W Nov 21 Day before Thanksgiving - class cancelled.
W Dec 5 Last class.
M Dec 17 A9 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 Sep 5			Introductions and preliminaries. Web-based searches of the Penn Historical Corpora of English.
M Sep 10	A1	A
F Sep 14	A2	B	Submit written answers to Questions 3, 5, and 7, and 10 to Akiva Bacovcin. Remember to include Ling300, the assignment number, and your last name in the subject line.
M Sep 24	A3	B	Submit to Akiva Bacovcin.
W Sep 26			At some point around here, we can discuss questions that you have about the readings for the syntax project.
M Oct 22			Fall break - no class.
T Oct 23	A4	C	Syntax project due (submit to Beatrice Santorini). Note change in due date. Guidelines for content and style.
Stress shift in French loanwords into English
W Oct 24	A5	A	Introduction to stress shift project. Notes on word stress.
W Oct 31	A6	B	Until further notice, submit assignments to Akiva Bacovcin. Please continue to report any errors you find in the spreadsheet even after the deadline.
W Nov 7	A7	B
W Nov 14	A8	B
M Nov 19			In-class discussion of possible topics for A9. Please note corrections to A9 spreadsheet: 19 Nov 2012
W Nov 21			Day before Thanksgiving - class cancelled.
W Dec 5			Last class.
M Dec 17	A9	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 the Tony Kroch's online papers page under "Reflexes of grammar...". I find that 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.