Class handouts for Linguistics 622: Grammar, Spring 2001:

Adjectives in lexicase dependency grammar [b493.rtf]
American linguistics today: a biased sampling [altbs.rtf]
Case forms and grammatical functions [b454.rtf]
Comparing grammars [c858'.rtf]
Comparing grammars: answers and extensions [c858''.rtf]
Control [b411.rtf]
Course syllabus [b393'''.rtf]
Dependency grammar and lexicalism [dgl'.rtf]
Ergativity, transitivity, and clitic coreference in four Western Austronesian languages [et_blak'.rtf] Ergativity exercise [b459.rtf]
Exam questions: Grammatical relations [b407.doc]
Exercise IV, Radford 1997, pp. 72-74 [b401.doc]
Exercise IV, Radford 1997, pp. 124-126; adapted and extended [b244.doc]
Final examination [b418.doc]
Final examination [b468.rtf]
Final examination: some answers [b468'.rtf]
First mid-term examination [b455.rtf]
First mid-term examination: answers [b455'.rtf]
First mid-term examination: answers [b405'.doc]
Generative methodology [ggmethod.rtf]
Goswanawe: assignment for Thursday [b462.rtf]
Homophonous verbs and NP structure [b446.rtf]
Levels of adequacy [b020.rtf]
Lexicalist dependency analysis of English auxiliary verbs [b398.rtf]
Lexicase dependency grammar [ b345'''.rtf or b345'''.doc]
Lexicase dependency grammar: answers [b345''''.rtf]
Lexicase grammar [dpndc_l'.rtf]
MP vs. DPNDC [ b397.rtf or b397.doc]
'Noun incorporation: sytactic or lexical? [b397.doc]
Passive [b410''.rtf]
Passive and antipassive: the lexicase analysis [b460.rtf]
Second mid-term examination [b463.rtf]
Situational roles, theta-roles, and case relations [b453.rtf]
Some M.A. Final - Ph.D. Preliminary examination grammar questions, arranged by category [b457.rtf]
Subjects, objects, and ergativity [b408.rtf]
Thematic relations and case relations [b326'.doc]
Transitivity and ergativity [b281'.rtf]
A vest-pocket guide to Chomskyan infinitival complement constructions [b419.rtf]
Word classes in the MP [b404.rtf]

Class handouts for Linguistics 760: The linguistic prehistory of East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific , Spring 2001:
The prehistory and pre-prehistory of the Austronesian Languages: A linguistic perspective [pphst_ohp.rtf]
Resource reference [b492.rtf]
Workshop on Perspectives on the Phylogeny of East Asian Languages, First circular [ppeal.rtf]

Class handouts for Linguistics 102(11): Introduction to language, Fall 2000:

Course outline [c991''''.rtf]
Chinese character identification[b233'.rtf]
Chinese phonetic-signific characters[.rtf]
English consonants and English spelling [c484''.rtf]
English consonants and English spelling [c993.rtf]
English vowels and English spelling [c230''.rtf]
English vowels and English spelling [c944.rtf]
Instructions for morphology assignments [b483.rtf]
Pidgin morphology [b006.rtf]

Class handouts for Linguistics 750X(1): Compounding and incorporation, Fall 2000:

Mithun, Marianne. 1986. On the nature of noun incorporation [mithunni.rtf; scanned in and partially edited]
Sadock, Jerrold M. 1986. Some notes on noun incorporation. Language 62.1:19-31 [notes_ni.rtf]
[Tokusu Kurebito says Eskimo has no compounding, and that Sadock's 'verbs' are lexical suffixes. I have a similar view: the 'verbs' are bound forms, and he has no explicit way to relate them to actual free verbs.]
Rosen, Sara. 1989. Two types of noun incorporation: a lexical analysis. Language 65:294-317 [TTNI_LA.rtf]
Seamless morphology remnants, 05 September [b481.rtf]

Class handouts for Linguistics 750x(1,2), The Typology of grammatical relations, Spring 1999:

Comments on W. O'Grady, "An alternative theory of morphological ergativity" [b445'.rtf]
Causation as a test for ergativity [b461.rtf]
A computational approach to ergativity: the Baffin Island reaction [b466.rtf]
Course syllabus [b436.rtf]
Lexicase meets ergativity [e0110101.rtf]
Lexicase meets ergativity in the land of Oz [b450.rtf]
Lexicase meets ergativity: a lexicase analysis of Mika's Ilokano examples from Gerdts 1988 [b449.rtf]
Lexicase meets ergativity: Manning on Inuit [b444.rtf]
Lexicase meets ergativity: the Pashto case(s), first approximation [b443.rtf]
Lexicase meets ergativity: the Pashto case(s), second approximation [b443'.rtf]
Lexicase meets hybrid ergativity in Tagalog [b458.rtf]
Readings for Linguistics 750x - Ergativity [b440.rtf]
Subject: ‘Subject: written response [re the Austing theory of ergativity, by William O'Grady]’[b467'.rtf]
SAO - lexicase correspondences (approximate) [b435.rtf]
Comments on F. Babrakzai, "Re: Transitivity & Split-Ergativity [b447.rtf]
What, ergativity in Austronesian? [b415.doc]
Yup'ik verb inflection [b451.rtf]

Class handouts for Linguistics 640x, Austronesian syntax, Spring 1998:

Causative patterns [b406.doc]
Ergativity [c281.doc]
Examples: sketch of Tagalog grammar [b319'.doc]
Marshallese versus the Western Austronesian languages [b416.doc]
Melayu Betawi clause and NP structure [b223'.doc]
Marshallese transitivity (Pagotto 1987) [i026'.doc]
Mayrinax Atayal relative clauses [b399.doc]
The nature of focus [b395.doc]
Passive, dative, and grammatical relations in Melayu Betawi [b121'.doc]
Proto-Austronesian and some of its descendants; A classification of the Formosan languages based on shared innovations in phonology; Skeleton of the PAn family tree based on grammatical innovations [c642''.doc]
Questions and clefts: some examples [b396.doc]
Questions of Austronesian grammar; Tsou focus and causativization [b394.doc]
Samoan transitivity [b213.doc]
Syllabus [b210'.doc]
Tagalog verb forms [b285.dot]
Tagalog verb forms [b300.wb1]
Transitivity [b347'.doc]

Assignments

Class handouts for Linguistics 750X, The syntax of SOV and SVO languages, Fall 1997:

Lexicase analyses of CatG control examples [b382.doc]
Syllabus, SVO and SOV languages [b363.doc]
Samoan pronouns [b420.doc]
Topicalization and unbounded dependency in lexicase dependency grammar [b388'.doc]

Class handouts for CU2222605, Chinese syntax and semantics, Fall 1998:

Answers to stemma exercise; assignments [e0101100''.doc]
Answers to stemma exercise; with feature matrices [e0101100'.doc]
Chinese case forms and case relations in verb subcategorization: Ng 1997 and Wilawan 1993 [e0101111.doc]
Chinese syntax and semantics: an overview [b429.doc]
Chinese verb subcategorization: Ng 1997 [e0101110.doc]
Compounding confusion in Chinese word formation; Starosta and Ng 1996 [cccwf.doc]
Dependency grammar and Chinese: introduction [e0101011.doc]
On defining the Chinese compound word: Headedness in Chinese compounding and Chinese VR compounds: Starosta, Kuiper, Ng, and Wu 1998 [vr_cmd.doc]
Mandarin case marking: Starosta 1985 [e0101101.doc]
'Serial verbs' and control in Chinese [e0110000.doc]
Verb derivation in Chinese: Ng 1997 [e0110001.doc]

Assignments

Assignments