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Schedule and Readings

Week Date Topic Readings Totals (approximate)
Week 1 Tuesday,
Aug 27		 Neural Polysynthetic Language Modelling
  • 4 pages of readings
Week 1 Thursday,
Aug 29		 Introduction to Yupik (ess) and Yupʼik (esu)
  • Jacobson, Preface (p. xii)
  • Miyaoka, Front Matter: List of phonological rules (p. xli-xlii)
  • Miyaoka, Front Matter: Abbreviations and conventions (p. xliii-xlix)
  • Miyaoka, Front Matter: Maps (p. l-li)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 1: Introductory (p. 3-17)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 2: A word in Yupʼik (p. 18-34)
  • Jacobson, Chapter 1 (p. 1-10)
  • 44 pages of readings
  • 10 pages of optional readings
Week 2 Tuesday,
Sep 03		 Miyaoka Ch. 1-2
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 3: Phonological preliminaries (p. 35-82)
  • Jacobson, Chapter 2 (p. 11-16)
  • 54 pages of readings
Week 2 Thursday,
Sep 05		 Miyaoka Ch. 3
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 4: Morphological preliminaries (p. 83-144)
  • Jacobson, Chapter 3 (p. 17-22)
  • 68 pages of readings
Week 3 Tuesday,
Sep 10		 Miyaoka Ch. 4
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 5: Syntactic preliminaries (p. 145-186)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 6: Sociolinguistic notes (p. 187-192)
  • Jacobson, Chapter 4 (p. 23-28)
  • 54 pages of readings
Week 3 Thursday,
Sep 12		 Miyaoka Ch. 5-6
Week 4 Tuesday,
Sep 17		 Current research
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 7: Segmental adjustments (p. 195-219)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 8: Prosody (p. 220-254)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 9: Post-prosodic adjustments (p. 255-263)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 10: Nominal inflections (p. 267-279)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 11: Nouns (p. 280-344)
  • 147 pages of readings
Week 4 Thursday,
Sep 19		 Miyaoka Ch. 7-9 and Ch. 10-11
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 12: Demonstratives (p. 345-381)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 13: Personal pronouns (p. 382-396)
  • 52 pages of readings
Week 5 Tuesday,
Sep 24		 Miyaoka Ch. 12-13
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 14: Numerals & quantifiers (p. 397-442)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 15: Ignoratives (p. 443-461)
  • 65 pages of readings
Week 5 Thursday,
Sep 26		 Miyaoka Ch. 14-15
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 16: Nominal phrases (p. 462-485)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 17: Relative clauses (p. 489-562)
  • 98 pages of readings
Week 6 Tuesday,
Oct 01		 Miyaoka Ch. 16-17
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 18: Nominal clauses (p. 563-630)
  • 68 pages of readings
Week 6 Thursday,
Oct 03		 Miyaoka Ch. 18
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 19: Other deverbal nouns (p. 631-645)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 20: Nominal elaborations (p. 646-705)
  • 75 pages of readings
Week 7 Tuesday,
Oct 08		 Miyaoka Ch. 19-20
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 21: Number (p. 709-720)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 22: Person (p. 721-729)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 23: Absolutive case (p. 730-736)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 24: Relative case (p. 737-749)
  • 41 pages of readings
Week 7 Thursday,
Oct 10		 Miyaoka Ch. 21-24
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 25: Ablative-modalis case (p. 750-768)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 26: Allative case (p. 769-778)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 27: Locative case (p. 779-812)
  • 63 pages of readings
Week 8 Tuesday,
Oct 15		 Miyaoka Ch. 25-27
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 28: Perlative case (p. 813-818)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 29: Equalis case (p. 819-825)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 30: Case assignments (p. 826-858)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 31: Vocatives (p. 859-863)
  • 51 pages of readings
Week 8 Thursday,
Oct 17		 Miyaoka Ch. 28-31
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 32: Verb inflection (p. 867-878)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 33: Intransitive stems (p. 879-897)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 34: Transitive stems (p. 898-939)
  • 73 pages of readings
Week 9 Tuesday,
Oct 22		 Miyaoka Ch. 32-34
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 35: Ditransitive stems (p. 940-971)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 36: Root-derived stems (p. 972-980)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 37: Relational verbs (p. 983-1005)
  • 64 pages of readings
Week 9 Thursday,
Oct 24		 Miyaoka Ch. 35-37
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 38: Non-relational verbalizations (p. 1006-1043)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 39: Simplex verb modifications (p. 1044-1088)
  • 82 pages of readings
Week 10 Tuesday,
Oct 29		 Miyaoka Ch. 38-39
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 39: Simplex verb modifications (p. 1088-1124)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 40: Complex transitives (p. 1125-1172)
  • 85 pages of readings
Week 10 Thursday,
Oct 31		 Miyaoka Ch. 39-40
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 41: Adverbial (p. 1175-1209)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 42: Tense and aspect (p. 1210-1221)
  • 49 pages of readings
Week 11 Tuesday,
Nov 05		 Miyaoka Ch. 41-42
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 42: Tense and aspect (p. 1221-1249)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 43: Modality (p. 1250-1271)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 44: Negation (p. 1272-1286)
  • 66 pages of readings
Week 11 Thursday,
Nov 07		 Miyaoka Ch. 42-44
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 45: Comparison (p. 1287-1320)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 46: Indicative mood (p. 1323-1328)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 47: Participial mood (p. 1329-1348)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 48: Interrogative mood (p. 1349-1361)
  • 73 pages of readings
Week 12 Tuesday,
Nov 12		 Miyaoka Ch. 45-48
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 49: Optative mood (p. 1362-1383)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 50: Connective mood (p. 1384-1414)
  • 53 pages of readings
Week 12 Thursday,
Nov 14		 Miyaoka Ch. 49-50
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 51: Appositional mood (p. 1415-1497)
  • 83 pages of readings
Week 13 Tuesday,
Nov 19		 Miyaoka Ch. 51
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 52: Non-inflecting words (p. 1501-1517)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 53: Particles (p. 1518-1543)
  • Miyaoka, Chapter 54: Enclitics (p. 1544-1562)
  • 62 pages of readings
Week 13 Thursday,
Nov 21		 Miyaoka Ch. 52-54
Week 14 Tuesday,
Nov 26		 Thanksgiving Break
Week 14 Thursday,
Nov 28		 Thanksgiving Break
Week 15 Tuesday,
Dec 03
Week 15 Thursday,
Dec 05
Week 16 Tuesday,
Dec 10

This course entails approximately 1574 total pages of required readings for the semester.