What's all this TAM-TAM? - The Morphosyntax of TENSE, ASPECT, and MOOD
Fridays | 11:00 – 13:00 | Room 114 | Anglistisches Seminar | Heidelberg University
- [17/11] I've linked the wrong PDF for session #07; corrected.
- [28/10] In the 'Downloads' section to session #02, you can dl the Müller-Lyer test for modularity, as well as the 22,000 (!) or so post-comma digits of Pi that the savant Daniel Tammet is able to recite.
- [28/10] We agreed on extending the majority of the sessions by 30 minutes, so the xourse will from now on be from 11:00 to 13:00.
- [21/10] For those of you who cannot come to session #02, here's the links to the video clips I will be showing:
- [21/10] Although not all topics are fixed for the sessions to come, you can already make a reservation for your text preparation for one of the dates - first come, first served!
The preparators for texts are given in square brackets.
Texts marked '+' are supplementary encyclopediac articles.
| Session | Reading [preparator in brackets] |
Downloads | Comment |
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| #01 (16/10) | — |
Brief intro |
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| #02 (23/10) | — |
Intro to linguistics as a CogSci |
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| #03 (30/10) | Morphology Carstairs-McCarthy (2002:§3): "A word and its parts: roots, affixes and their shapes" |
Intro to grammar, syntax & morphology |
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REDISTRIBUTED |
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| #04 (13/11) | Tense & Time |
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| #05 (20/11) | Aspect |
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| #06 (27/11) | Perfect: Tense or Aspect? Kibort (2008): "Modelling ‘the perfect’, a category between tense and aspect" [Janina] +Lindstedt (2006): "Perfects, Resultatives, and Experientials" |
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REDISTRIBUTED |
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| #07 (08/12) | Mood & Modality |
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REDISTRIBUTED |
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| #08 (08/01) | Future: Tense or Mood? Sarkar (1998): "The conflict between future tense and modality: The case of 'will' in English." [Marcel] +Dahl (2006): "Future Tense and Future Time Reference" |
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| #09 (15/01) | Morphosyntax I: Intro van Gelderen (2002): "Phrases" [Carlotta] |
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| #10 (22/01) | Morphosyntax II: VP van Gelderen (2002): "The Structure of the Verb Group in the VP" [Benedetta] |
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| #11 (29/01) | Repetition/Summary | ||
| #12 (05/02) | — |
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EXAM |