Lecture Notes: Linguistics

Lecture Notes: Linguistics

Edward Stabler, Winter 2014



Lecture notes:

(page numbers will change during the quarter)

1 The nature of human languages

1

2 Morphology

11

3 Syntactic constituents and categories

23

4 The anatomy of a phrase

33

5 Heads and non-recursive combinations

41

6 Sentences and first glimpse of movement

53

7 Clauses, tense, and questions

63

8 Review: The perspective so far

75

9 Semantics: What it all means

85

10 Semantic perspectives on determiners etc

93

11 Names, pronouns and binding

99

12 Phonetics

103

13 Phonology introduced

115

14 Phonemes and rules of variation

125

15 Stress and intonation

139

16 Universals, and review

145

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Linguistics 20

Introduction to Linguistics

Lecture MW2-4 in Bunche 2209A

O?ce Hours: M4-5, by appt, or stop by

Prof. Ed Stabler

O?ce: Campbell 3103f

stabler@ucla.edu

Prerequisites: none

Contents: What are human languages, such that they can be acquired and used as they

are? This class surveys some of the most important and recent approaches to this question,

breaking the problem up along traditional lines. In spoken languages, what are the basic

speech sounds? How are these sounds articulated and combined? What are the basic units of

meaning? How are the basic units of meaning combined into complex phrases? How are these

complexes interpreted? These questions are surprisingly hard! This introductory survey can

only brie?y touch on each one.

Text: Linguistics: An introduction to linguistic theory. V. Fromkin (ed.), which is available

new and used here, here, here, here here, and here.

Notes and homework will be posted at

Requirements and grades: There will be 4 homework assignments, assigned on Wednesdays

and due the following Monday in lecture, at the beginning of class. The homework will be

graded by the TAs and discussed in the discussion sections. There will be 3 mid-term quizzes

during the quarter, and an in-class ?nal exam. The exams will be analytic problems very

similar to those given in the homework.

The ?nal exam will have 4 parts, 1 part corresponding to each of the 3 earlier quizzes, and 1

part for the new material. So for each of the ?rst 3 parts of the class, we will have 2 grades:

the original quiz and the grade on corresponding section of the ?nal. Your grade will be the

higher of those 2. The part of the ?nal on new material will be worth 16%. The idea is to

make the quizzes much less stressful (and a better indication of what you have learned) than

just 1 or 2 huge exams. You get a second shot at ?rst 3 parts of the material.

Quiz and ?nal exam dates (all held in class) are posted on the website,

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where lecture notes, and reading assignments will also be posted each week.

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