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Prerequisites:
Instructor
Michele M. Stewart
Room
Contact Hours:
2 hrs Lectures; 1 hr Seminar per week
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Tutorial
Presentations:
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Beginning
in Week 2, each week a student or a group of 2 students
is required to prepare and deliver a presentation on prescribed
topics for discussion. Each student should present for
10 mins, and prepare a handout for distribution to your
colleagues. Please choose your topic at the beginning
of the semester. A list of readings is attached
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| Week
2 |
Dean, Michael 2003 Chomsky.
A Beginner’s Guide. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
Chapters 4 and 5 on The Chomskyan Revolution.
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Week 3
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: Radford, Andrew 2004
English Syntax. An Introduction. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press. Chapter 2 pgs 33-42
on Functional Categories (determiners, pronouns
and auxiliaries)
Plag, Ingo 1998 The Syntax of some locative expressions
in Sranan: preposition, postposition, or noun?
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 13:2,
335-353
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| Week
4 |
Nylander, Dudley 1998
Genitival Structures in Krio. Journal of Pidgin
and Creole Languages. 13:1 163-166 (1 student only)
Baptista, Marlyse 2002 The Syntax of Cape Verdean
Creole. The Sotavento Varieties. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia:
John Benjamins. Pgs 55-57 on Reflexives. (1 student
only)
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Week 5
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Kihm, Alain 1995
Tayo, the strange bird from New Caledonia …
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages Vol 10:2
Pgs 230-236 on Determiners in Tayo, Isle de France
Creole and Haitian.
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| Week 6 |
Roberts, Ian 1999
Verb Movement and Markedness. DeGraff, Michel
(ed.) Language Creation and Language Change. Creolization,
Diachrony and Development. Cambridge, MA/ London,
England: MIT Press. Pgs 304-307 on lack of verb
movement in Creole Languages. (1 student only)
You may also refer to DeGraff, Michel 1997 Verb
syntax in, and beyond, creolization. Haegeman,
Liliane (ed.) The New Comparative Syntax. London/
New York: Longman. Chapter 3 Pgs 67-70
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| Week 7 |
LaCharité, Darlene/
Wellington, Jean 1999 Passive in Jamaican Creole:
Phonetically Empty but Syntactically Active. Journal
of Pidgin and Creole Languages. Vol 14:2 Pgs 259-272. |
| Week 8 |
Lumsden, John 1993 Expletives
in double object constructions in Haitian Creole.
Byrne, Francis/ Winford, Donald (eds) Focus and
grammatical relations in Creole languages. Amsterdam/
Philadelphia: Benjamins. Pgs 289-284
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| Week 9 |
: Kouwenberg, Silvia
1990 Complementizer pa, the finiteness of its complements,
and some remarks on empty categories in Papiamento.
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages Vol 5:1 pgs
39-51
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| Week 10 |
Byrne, Francis 1986 Evidence
against Grammars without Empty Categories. Linguistic
Inquiry. Vol 17:4 pgs 754-759
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| Week 11 |
: None, since essays
are due this week.
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Week 12 –
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Adone, Dany/ Vainikka,
Anne 1999 Acquisition of Wh-Questions in Mauritian
Creole. DeGraff, Michel (ed.) Language Creation
and Language Change. Creolization, Diachrony and
Development. Cambridge, MA/ London, England: MIT
Press. pgs 75-79 & 81-83 on adult short-distance
and long-distance wh-question formation.
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