This schedule is tentative and subject to change as the semester progresses.
| Date | Lecture | Reading | Assignment | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture of Meaning | ||||||
| Th | 1/11 | 1 | Course Orientation | |||
| Tu | 1/16 | 2 | Figure & Ground | |||
| Th | 1/18 | 3 | Figure & Ground contd. | Talmy (2000) | Week 2 HW due 1/22 | |
| Tu | 1/23 | 4 | Profile, Base, & Domain | Taylor ch. 10 | ||
| Th | 1/25 | 5 | Schematicity, Level of Categorization | Taylor ch. 7, 9 | ||
| Tu | 1/30 | 6 | Image Schemas | Mandler & Pagan Canovas (2014) | ||
| Th | 2/1 | 7 | Lexical Categories as Relational Profiles | Taylor ch. 11 | ||
| Sa-Tu | 2/3-2/6 | TEST 1: Due 2/6 at 8:00am | ||||
| Tu | 2/6 | 8 | Syntagmatic Relations | Taylor ch. 12; Behrens 2000 | ||
| Th | 2/8 | 9 | Syntagmatic Relations contd. | |||
| Tu | 2/13 | 10 | Embodiment & Polysemy Networks (guest lecture: Andrea Tyler) | Lourdes away | ||
| Th | 2/15 | 11 | Construal | Croft & Cruse | ||
| Tu | 2/20 | 12 | Nouns & Nominals: Quantification and Grounding | Taylor ch. 18 | ||
| Th | 2/22 | 13 | Mass & Count nouns (guest lecture by Sakol); Tense & Aspect (guest lecture by Brandon) | Langacker (2008) ch. 5; Taylor ch. 20 | ||
| Meaning-Motivated Syntax | ||||||
| Tu | 2/27 | 14 | Frame Semantics & FrameNet | Fillmore 1985, 2012 Lifetime Achievement talk | Lourdes away | |
| Th | 3/1 | 15 | Simple Clauses: Argument Structure | Lourdes away | ||
| Sa-Su | 3/3-11 | No class or office hours: Spring Break 3/9-3/11: GURT 2018 |
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| Tu | 3/13 | 16 | Coordination and Subordination | |||
| Th | 3/15 | 17 | Relative Clauses | |||
| Tu | 3/20 | 18 | Language and Law (guest lecture: Craig Hoffman) | |||
| Th | 3/22 | 19 | Complement Clauses and Adverbial Clauses; Event Types | |||
| Tu | 3/27 | 20 | Construction Grammar: Multiword expressions and non-"core" grammar | Littlemore & Taylor ch. 2.3; Baldwin & Kim (2010) | Lourdes away | |
| Th | 3/29 | No class or office hours: Easter Break | ||||
| Tu | 4/3 | 21 | Construction Grammar: Argument structure and questions | |||
| Th | 4/5 | 22 | Construction Acquisition | Behrens (2000) | ||
| Sa-Tu | 4/6-4/9 | TEST 2 (covering through lecture 21): due 4/9 at 8:00am | ||||
| Language and Thought | ||||||
| Tu | 4/10 | 23 | Preposition Perspectives | Lourdes away | ||
| Th | 4/12 | 24 | Catch-up; discuss squib topics | Lourdes away | ||
| Tu | 4/17 | 25 | Metaphor, Metonymy, Linguistic Relativity | Littlemore & Taylor (2014) 2.4 | ||
| Th | 4/19 | 26 | Typology of Motion; Force Dynamics | |||
| Tu | 4/24 | 27 | Conceptual Blending & Anaphora | |||
| Th | 4/26 | 28 | Review | |||
| F | 5/11 | FINAL SQUIB due, 6:00pm | ||||