Temary

This course offers an introduction to Linguistics, assuming no prior knowledge of the field. It covers the foundations of language structure: phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. We will consider and discuss the range of properties found in human languages by tackling problems of linguistic analysis of different types of grammars. A selection of readings will be provided to discuss relevant themes related to language, evolution, its relations to other cognitive domains, the specificity of its computations, as well as its neurobiology.

Bibliography

Compulsory materials

¿ Jackendoff, Ray (2002). Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

¿ Stewart, Thomas and Vaillette Nathan, (Eds.) (2001)Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press.

Basic bibliography

Aldridge, Edith. 2008. Generative approaches to ergativity. Language and Linguistics Compass 2. 966¿95.

ANDERSON, S.R. (1982) "Where's morphology" Linguistic Inquiry, 13, pp. 571-612.

ARONOFF, M. (1994) Morphology by Itself. Stems and Inflectional Classes.MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts

BELLETI, A. y L. RIZZI (1988) "Psych verbs and Theta-theory" en Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 6, pp. 291-353

CHENG, L. 1997 On the Typology of Wh-Questions. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

CHIERCHIA, G. y S. MCCONNEL-GINET (1990) Grammar and Meaning. An Introduction to Semantics. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

CHOSMKY, N (1959a) "Review: B.F. Snikker's Verbal Behavior" en Language, 35, pp. 26-58.

CHOMSKY, N. (1957) Syntactic Structures, Mouton, The Hague

CHOMSKY, N. (1986) Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origins and Use, Praeger, New York

CHOMSKY, N. 1995. The minimalist program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

COMRIE, B. (1987) The World's Major Languages, Routledge, London.

COMRIE, B. (1989) Language universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology. Blackwell.

COOK, G. (1989) Discourse, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

COOK, V.J. (1988) Chomsky¿s Universal Grammar: An Introduction. Blackwell, Oxford

DI SCIULLO, A. y E. WILLIAMS (1987) On the Definition of Word. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

DIXON, R.M.W. (1994) Ergativity, Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 69, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Great Britain.

GREENBERG, Joseph. 1966. Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements. Universals of language, ed. Joseph Greenberg, 73¿113. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

GRICE, H.P. (1975) "Logic and conversation" in P. Cole y J.L. Morgan (eds.) (1975) Syntax and Semantics. Vol. 3. Speech Acts. Academic Press, New York, pp. 41-58.

GRUBER, J.S. (1976) Lexical Structures in Syntax and Semantics, North-Holland, Amsterdam.

Journals

Biolinguistics

Journal of Linguistics

Journal of Phonetics

Language

Language and LinguIsitic Compass

Lingua

Linguistic Inquiry

Linguistic Review

Linguistic Typology

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Syntax

Links

THE LINGUIST LIST: http://linguistlist.org/index.cfm

LANGUAGE RESOURCES: http://linguistlist.org/langres/index.cfm

ASK A LINGUIST: http://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/index.cfm

Haskins lab: http://www.haskins.yale.edu/

LINGBUZZ: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/

International network on Biolinguistics: http://www.biolinguistics.uqam.ca/links.html

NPR EXPLORING LANGUAGE: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5541690

ETHNOLOGUE, LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD: http://www.ethnologue.com/