Linguistics
103
Language
structure and verbal art
fall
2009
Lecture
Materials and Discussion Problems
date title
9 Sept
Jabberwocky
9 Sept
More
Nonsense Verse
9 Sept
Discussion
Problem: Hypotheses about Shakespearean Iambic Pentameter
14 Sept
Answers
to Discussion
Problem: Hypotheses about Shakespearean Iambic Pentameter
14 Sept
Introduction
to Shakespeare's meter
14 Sept
Discussion
Problem for 16 Sept: Metrical Analysis of Passages from Shakespeare
16 Sept
Answers
to Discussion
Problem for 16 Sept
16 Sept
A
Phonological Approach to Meter
21 Sept
Variations
in Metrical Theory and Practice
21 Sept
Discussion
Problem for 23 Sept: Practice with metrical varation
23 Sept
Review
of Metrical Variation
23 Sept
Introduction
to Chaucer
28 Sept
Practice
with Chaucer
28 Sept
Discussion
Problem for 30 September: Analysis of a passage from Chaucer
30 Sept
Other
Meters: Trochaic, Anapestic, Dactylic and Loose Iambic
5 Oct
Practice
in Identifying Meters
5 Oct
Discussion
Problems for 7 October: Poems by Thomas Hardy
7 Oct
Translating
Dante into English
7 Oct
Discussion
for October 12: Cantos II and III of the Inferno
12 Oct
Introduction
to the Song of Roland
14 Oct
Phonetic
Transcription and Syllable Structure
21 Oct
Rhyme:
structure and history
21 Oct
Discussion
Problems for 26 Oct: Practice
with Transcription, Syllables and Rhyme Analysis
26 Oct
Imperfect
Rhyme in American Blues Lyrics
28 Oct
Imperfect
Rhyme in Early Welsh Epic Poetry
2 Nov
Parallelism
and Parataxis: Hebrew and Mansi Poetry
4 Nov
Introduction
to Linguistic Pragmatics
9 Nov
Pragmatics
and Jokes
11 Nov
Oral
Culture and Oral Literature
16 Nov
Old
English Pronunciation and Meter
16 Nov
Linguistic
Methods for Dating the Composition of Beowulf
16 Nov
Timeline
of documents in Old English
18 Nov
Traditional
Considerations in Dating Beowulf
23 Nov
Formulaic
language in Homer and in Beowulf
30 Nov
Introduction
to Natural Narrative
2 Dec
Possible
Worlds and the Expression of Time
7 Dec
Technique
of Narrative Analysis
7 Dec
Rage
Narratives
9 Dec
Sharing
Time: First Graders' Narratives