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Spring break
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T 3/12
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Pronouns.
Them vs. 'em. Thou, you, y'all (yins,
youse). Gender-neutrality: singular they, you guys,
dude.
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Baron 1981
Crystal 2004, interlude 12
Crystal 2004, interlude 17
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Pronoun wishlist and forecast.
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R 3/14
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Progress report on final paper topic.
For reference: Past paper topics.
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T 3/19
R 3/21
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Semantic change.
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Algeo and Butcher 2014, ch. 10
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Notes on semantic change.
Food terms in web menu design
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T 3/26
R 3/28
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Make new words.
Sources of new vocabulary from within the language.
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Algeo and Butcher 2014, ch. 11
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Notes on new words.
Misles.
Word formation
strategies in present-day English.
Dubious doublets.
Negativa tantum.
New meanings for place names.
Obsolete words.
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T 4/2
R 4/4
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Take new words.
Sources of new vocabulary from outside the language.
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Algeo and Butcher 2014, ch. 12
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T 4/9
R 4/11
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Loaded words.
The concept of taboo.
Functions of swearing: abusive, cathartic, dysphemistic, emphatic, idiomatic.
The euphemism treadmill.
| Pinker 2007, ch. 7
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T 4/16
R 4/18
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Slang.
Functions of slang. Slang vs. swearing: How are they similar, and how are
they different?
| Eble 2004
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T 4/23
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Buffer class.
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R 4/25
T 4/30
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Presentations of draft versions of final project.
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Su 5/12
Final paper due.
Guidelines concerning style and references.
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