Slavic Contributions to Linguistics
Welcome to Russian 607. Numerous handouts, including the syllabus, are available here in pdf format.
| August 29 | Syllabus |
| Helps and Notes to Fundamentals of Language, 1 | |
| FL, 2 | |
| Questions on FL | |
| Feature grids | |
| Aug 31 | FL, 3 |
| Sep 5 | Kindersprache notes, 1 discussion now to be held on 21 Sept |
| Kindersprache notes, 2 | |
| French consonant system | |
| Sep 9 | Russian consonant system |
| Sept 12 | Anthony's Contribution |
| Comparative Slavic Phonology (assignments now for 28 Sept} | |
| French Consonant Features | |
| Russkie bukvy | |
| Identification of Phonemic Entities | |
| Why Mama and Papa | |
| Towards the Logical Description | |
| Sept 19 | Assignment for Week Five, for 5 October, beginning Morphology: read only "Russian Conjugation," "Shifters" and "Zero Sign" |
| Russian Conjugation | |
| Shifters | |
| Oct 3 | Sign Zero (belongs with the above two) |
| Relation between Visual and Auditory (here begin articles for October 12) | |
| Visual and Auditory Signs | |
| Quest for the Essence of Language (a very special article, actually a speech he delivered, so it is dumbed-down a touch) | |
| Oct 10 | Morphophonemics ~ phonemics (addendum to Russian conjugation - take a look) |
| Oct 15 | Chomsky Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 |
| Oct 21 | Chomsky 5,6 |
| Chomsky 7 | |
| Oct 30 | Chomsky 8,9 |
Dear Students,
Do what you can with Cook and Newson 5-7; esp. 7 is difficult, and I must, say, too concisely presented for the general reader. I apologize.
Keep preparing your presentations!
Thanks for all,
George