| Syllabus | Schedule & Links to Readings | Handouts |
* Note: Readings are listed in the order in which they are assigned.
Links to the online articles are found on the Schedule & Links to Readings.
Halpern, Mark. 2001. "The End of Linguistics". The American Scholar, Winter 2001. pp. 13-26.
Joseph, John E. 1995. "Trends in twentieth-century linguistics: an overview". In E.F.K. Koerner and R.E. Asher, eds. Concise History of the Language Sciences: From the Sumerians to the Cognitivists, 221-233. New York: Pergamon.
Popper, Karl R. 1959. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. London: Hutchinson. (Ch. 1; Pp. 27-48.)
Kuhn, Thomas S. 1962/1970. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Ch. 2-5; Pp. 10-65.)
Chomsky, Noam. 1965. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge: MIT Press. (Ch. 1; Pp. 3-62.)
Radford, Andrew. 2004. Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Ch. 1; Pp. 1-32.)
Derwing, Bruce L. 1973. "Chomsky's 'revolution' reconsidered". In Bruce L. Derwing, Transformational Grammar as a Theory of Second Language Acquisition: A Study in the Empirical, Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of Contemporary Linguistics. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Pp. 225-258.)
Chomsky, Noam. 1970. "Remarks on nominalization". In Roderick Jacobs and Peter Rosenbaum, eds. Readings in English Transformational Grammar, 184-221. Waltham, Mass.: Ginn.
Tagliamonte, Sali. 2006. Analyzing Sociolinguistic Variation. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Ch. 1-2; Pp. 1-36.)
Anderson, Bridget. 2002. "Dialect leveling and /ai/ monophthongization among African American Detroiters". Journal of Sociolinguistics 6:86-98.
Schiffrin, Deborah. 1993. "Speaking for another in sociolinguistic interviews: alignments, identities, and frames". In Deborah Tannen, ed. Framing in Discourse, 231-263. New York: Oxford University Press.
Rickford, John R. and Faye McNair-Knox. 1999. "Addressee- and topic-influenced style shift: A quantitative sociolinguistic study". In John R. Rickford, ed. African American Vernacular English: Features, Evolution, Educational Implications, 112-153. Malden: Blackwell.
Radden, Günter. 1992. "The cognitive approach to natural language". In Martin Pütz, ed. Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution, 513-542. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Langacker, Ronald W. 1995. "Cognitive Grammar". In E.F.K. Koerner and R.E. Asher, ed. Concise History of the Language Sciences: From the Sumerians to the Cognitivists, 365-368. New York: Pergamon.
Matlock, Teenie, Michael Ramscar, and Lera Boroditsky. 2005. "On the experiential link between spatial and temporal language". Cognitive Science 29:655-664.
Langacker, Ronald W. 1985. "Observations and speculations on subjectivity". In John Haiman, ed. Iconicity in Syntax, 109-150. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Grady, Joseph E. 1997. "Theories are buildings revisited". Cognitive Linguistics 8:267-290.
Croft, William. 1990. Typology and Universals. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Ch. 1 & 9; Pp. 1-26 & 246-259.)
Dryer, Matthew S. 1997. "On the six-way word order typology". Studies in Language 21:69-103.
O'Connor, Mary Catherine. 1996. "The situated interpretation of possessor-raising". In Masayoshi Shibatani and Sandra A. Thompson, eds. Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning, 125-156. New York: Oxford University Press.
Newman, Paul and Martha Ratliff. 2001. "Introduction". In Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff, eds. Linguistic Fieldwork, 1-14. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Vaux, Bert and Justin Cooper. 1999. Introduction to Linguistic Field Methods. München: Lincom Europa. (Excerpts from Ch. 1, Pp. 5-11.)
Matthewson, Lisa. 2004. "On the methodology of semantic fieldwork". International Journal of American Linguistics 70:369-415.
Duranti, Alessandro. 1994. From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Excerpts from Ch. 2, Pp. 14-32.)
Hopper, Paul J. 1987. "Emergent grammar". BLS 13:139-157.
Weber, Thilo. 1997. "The emergence of linguistic structure: Paul Hopper's emergent grammar hypothesis revisited". Language Sciences 19:177-196.
Thompson, Sandra A. and Anthony Mulac. 1991. "The discourse conditions for the use of the complementizer 'that' in conversational English". Journal of Pragmatics 15:237-251.
Tao, Hongyin. 2001. "Discovering the usual with corpora: The case of remember". In Rita Simpson and John Swales, eds., Corpus Linguistics in North America: Selections from the 1999 Symposium, 116-144. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Ford, Cecilia E., Barbara A. Fox and Sandra A. Thompson. 2002. "Social interaction and grammar". In Michael Tomasello, ed. The New Psychology of Language, vol. 2, 119-143. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Fox, Barbara A., Makoto Hayashi, and Robert Jasperson. 1996. "Resources and repair: a cross-linguistic study of syntax and repair". In Elinor Ochs, Emanuel Schegloff, and Sandra A. Thompson, eds. Interaction and grammar, 185-237. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Curl, Traci S. 2006. "Offers of assistance: constraints on syntactic design". Journal of Pragmatics 38:1257-1280.
Biber, Douglas. 2000. "Investigating language use through corpus-based analyses of association patterns". In Michael Barlow and Suzanne Kemmer, eds. Usage-Based Models of Language, 287-313. Stanford: CSLI.
Newmeyer, Frederick J. 2003. "Grammar is grammar and usage is usage". Language 79:682-707
Bybee, Joan L. 2006. "From usage to grammar: the mind's response to repetition". Language 82:711-733.