{"id":313,"date":"2017-06-05T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/?p=313"},"modified":"2017-06-05T01:04:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T08:04:38","slug":"june-5-introduction-to-verbal-morphology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/2017\/06\/05\/june-5-introduction-to-verbal-morphology\/","title":{"rendered":"June 5: Introduction to Verbal Morphology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we can began the long day&#8217;s journey into verbs. If you want a really solid review of predicates and clause types, check out the <a href=\"\/papers\/dryer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the paper by Matthew Dryer below<\/a>. Otherwise, tomorrow we&#8217;re having a guest speaker\u2014Mr. John Quijada, about whom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2012\/12\/24\/utopian-for-beginners\" target=\"_blank\">this <i>New Yorker<\/i> article was written<\/a>\u2014so <i>please<\/i> read the preparatory handout he wrote heading into tomorrow&#8217;s lecture. Also check out this picture they did of John for that <i>New Yorker<\/i> article (lol):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/121224_r22980_g2048-963-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/121224_r22980_g2048-963-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/121224_r22980_g2048-963-768x957.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/121224_r22980_g2048-963-822x1024.jpg 822w, https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/121224_r22980_g2048-963-642x800.jpg 642w, https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/121224_r22980_g2048-963.jpg 963w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Material From Today&#8217;s Class<\/h1>\n<h4>PDFs<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/papers\/ling183_w3d1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Class Slides<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/papers\/dryer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Dryer &#8220;Clause Types&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Links<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2012\/12\/24\/utopian-for-beginners\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Foer &#8220;Utopian for Beginners&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Assignments<\/h1>\n<h4>Reading<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/papers\/quijada_is.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Reading from John Quijada<\/a><\/li>\n<li>AoLI Chapter 2, pp. 139-148 (or save till tomorrow)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Practice<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Go and take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/ithkuil.net\" target=\"_blank\">John Quijada&#8217;s Ithkuil website<\/a>. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/ithkuil.net\/00_intro.html\" target=\"_blank\">Introduction<\/a> (up <i>through<\/i> the section entitled &#8220;Addressing the Vagueness Inherent in Natural Languages&#8221;), then what I want you to do is find your favorite example sentence throughout the site (there are tons), and post the romanized version along with the meaning to the <b>#morphology<\/b> channel. (Note: Be prepared for a <i>lot<\/i> of sentences about clowns.)<\/li>\n<li>Find an agreement pattern in a natlang grammar\u2014but not just any agreement pattern. Find a subject (or object or direct object) agreement pattern where <b>the same form is used for two or more different person\/number combinations<\/b>. In English, for example, the verb agreement for a first person plural, second person plural, and third person plural subject will always be identical. Find an agreement pattern like that, and post a link to it along with a description of the pattern in question to our <b>#morphology<\/b> channel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Mastery<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><i>(None Today)<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Backburner<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/papers\/ling183_ma6.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Start looking at MA 6<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we can began the long day&#8217;s journey into verbs. If you want a really solid review of predicates and clause types, check out the the paper by Matthew Dryer below. Otherwise, tomorrow we&#8217;re having a guest speaker\u2014Mr. John Quijada, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/2017\/06\/05\/june-5-introduction-to-verbal-morphology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoflanguageinvention.com\/cal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}