Materials
- Unit 4: Pragmatics
- Handout packet
- Unit 2: Morphology
- Handout packet
- Required readings
- The nature of prepositions (Geoffrey K. Pullum)
- Counting Eskimo words for snow: A citizen's guide (Anthony C. Woodbury)
- Optional/Advanced readings
- The great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax (Geoffrey K. Pullum)
- Unit 1: Thinking critically about language
- Handout packet
- Required readings
- What is 'correct' language? (Edward Finegan)
- On prescriptivism (Bill Poser)
- Pages 409-420 of An Introduction to Language, 8th ed.
- Going nucular (Geoff Nunberg)
- One, two, many -- or `small size', `large size', `cause to come together'? (Mark Liberman)
- Optional/Advanced readings
- Simple framing (George Lakoff)
- Ideology, power, and linguistic theory (Geoffrey K. Pullum)
- Grammaticality, anaphora, and all that (Arnold Zwicky)