Highlighted items are future plans that may be subject to adjustment.

Tuesday
Thursday
[outline] Jan 19 | intro/phonetics
Intro to course: Japanese and linguistics
Vowels of Japanese
[outline] Jan 21
Consonants of Japanese
Phonetics vs. writing systems
[outline] Jan 26 | phonology
Mental sound patterns:
Sounds that change in context
[outline] Jan 28
Segmental phonology:
Rules and "exceptions"
[outline] Feb 2
Segmental phonology: Wrap-up
Prosodic categories: Moras
[outline] Feb 4
Pitch accent
[outline] Feb 9
Prosodic categories: Syllables
[outline] Feb 11
Loanword phonology
Phonology and writing, revisited
Feb 16
Wellness Day
Feb 18
Weather cancellation
[outline] Feb 23 | morphology
Structure of words
Adjective morphology
[outline] Feb 25
Verb morphology and phonology
A and V morphology: More issues
[outline] Mar 2
Diagnosing word class: N, AN, A
Using a corpus for linguistic analysis
[outline] Mar 4
Compounds and rendaku
[info] Mar 9 (asynch) | projects
Final project information
Designing project materials
Mar 11
Wellness day
[outline] Mar 16
Review for exam
In-group/out-group; politeness dimensions
Mar 18
Midterm exam
[outline] Mar 23 | sociolinguistics
Language, gender, and identity
[outline] Mar 25
Thematic roles, case
Verbs of giving and receiving
[outline] Mar 30 | semantics (Article summary)
Tense and aspect
[outline] Apr 1 | discourse (etc.)
The topic marker wa
[outline] Apr 6 | syntax
Sentence structure
Constituents and trees
[outline] Apr 8 (Topic proposal M Apr 12)
Sentence structure
Subcategorization; empty categories
[info] Apr 13
Guest lecture (6:30-7:30pm)
Linguistics of Pokémon names
[outline] Apr 15
Flexible word order
Configurationality
[outline] Apr 20 | historical ling (Methodology plan)
Reconstructing phonology
[outline] Apr 22
Classical Japanese morphology and syntax
Is Japanese related to any other languages?
[outline] Apr 27 | dialects
'Language,' 'dialect,' 'variety'
Differences among Japanese varieties
[outline] Apr 29 | big picture
Japanese discourse in action
Course overview and conclusions
May 4
Workshop day: Final projects

** Final exam period (presentations): F May 7, 12-3pm **