Required texts:
All readings are available free in Canvas. And here too: Practice Manual; plus Sorted Corpus. See also Hemingway, Big Two-Hearted River II.
Attendance and grading:
I do not require attendance. You will find the course very difficult if you do not attend and ask questions regularly.
Your final grade is on the standard 100-point scale (below 60, F; 60-69, D; 70-79, C; 80-89, B; 90-100, A). Each paper will be graded on the 100-point scale as well. Paper 1 will be worth 10% of your final grade; paper 2 worth 20%; paper 3 worth 30%; paper 4 worth 40%. If you do better on a given paper than on the papers before, your grade for the previous papers will be raised to match the grade on the current paper. No late work is accepted.
Thurs 26 Aug: introductions; language (Thursday group, surnames A-L)
Tues 31 Aug: introductions; language (Tuesday group, surnames M-Z)
Thurs 2 Sept: Unit 1: rules and the corpus (Thursday group, surnames A-L)
Tues 7 Sept: Unit 1: rules and the corpus (Tuesday group, surnames M-Z)
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Thurs 9 Sept: NO CLASS MEETING
Tues 14 Sept: Unit 2: word classes
Thurs 16 Sept: Unit 3: cores & adverbials
Tues 21 Sept: in-class analyses: word classes, cores, adverbials
Thurs 23 Sept: in-class analyses: word classes, cores, adverbials
Sun 26 Sept: paper 1 due by midnight
Tues 28 Sept: NO CLASS MEETING
Thurs 30 Sept: Unit 4: intransitives & subject-complements
Tues 5 Oct: Unit 5: transitives; active & passive
Thurs 7 Oct: Unit 6: coordination
Tues 12 Oct: Unit 7: noun phrases & determiners
Thurs 14 Oct: Unit 8: pronouns
Sun 17 Oct: paper 2 due by midnight
Tues 19 Oct: Unit 9: adjectives, attributive nouns, & numerals as premodifiers
Thurs 21 Oct: Unit 10: postmodifying prepositional phrases
Tues 26 Oct: Unit 11: verb-form modifiers (participles and infinitives)
Thurs 28 Oct: Unit 12: verb tense
Tues 2 Nov: Unit 13: verb aspect & auxiliaries
Thurs 4 Nov: Unit 14: modal verbs
Sun 7 Nov: paper 3 due by midnight
Tues 9 Nov: Unit 15: NICE; Unit 19: ditransitives & object-complements
Thurs 11 Nov: Unit 16: relative clauses
Tues 16 Nov: Unit 17: adverbial clauses
Thurs 18 Nov: Unit 18: nominal clauses
Sun 12 Dec: paper 4 due by midnight
syllabus: The effective version of the syllabus is always at https://tmorris.utasites.cloud/courses/3384f21/3384mainf21.html. If you are looking at a print or .pdf version, please make sure to consult the online version for updates.