Ttentative and subject to change, so please do check this page often!
| Date |
Topic |
Readings |
Assignments |
| Feb 10 | General introduction to linguistics and to issues related to Arabic in particular — Lecture slides | ||
| Feb 12 | History of Arabic as a Semitic language — Lecture slides | Ryding’s Chapter 1, pp. 1-9, and Read pp. 1-18 from these chapters by Clive Holes | Fill in the questionnaire and turn it in in class |
| Feb 17 | History of Arabic cont. — Lecture slides | Finish reading Holes’ Chapter 1, pp. 18-50. | Write responses to these questions. |
| Feb 19 | The emergence of MSA — Diglossia — Lecture slides | (i) Versteegh’s Chapter 11; and (ii) Ferguson 1959 | Homework #1 assigned |
| Feb 24 | Badawi’s model for diglossia; and Linguistic features of Media Arabic — Lecture slides | ||
| Feb 26 | Phonetics: Articulation of Arabic Consonants and Vowels — Lecture slides |
O’Grady et al’s Chapter on Phonetics (pp. 16-37) – and Ryding’s Chapter 2 | Analyze this text and make sure to turn in a written annotated text in class |
| Homework #1 due on Friday Feb 28 by 5pm | |||
| March 3 | A sociolinguistic study of Greetings in Beirut; also Phonetic transcription; Coarticulation — Lecture slides | Read this 2007 article by Germanos on ‘Greetings in Beirut’ — and finish reading O’Grady et al’s Chapter on Phonetics (pp. 37-49) | Answer these questions on Germanos’ article. — Deadline to notify me with your adopted dialect |
| March 5 | More on coarticualtion, syllable structure, and stress placement in Egyptian Arabic; also discussion of Diglossia in Arabic learning and teaching; — Lecture slides | Read (a) this article by Ayari and (b) this article by Ryding | Prepare answers to these questions for class discussion |
| March 7 | Linguistics Colloqium on Bilingualism (from 3-6pm) @ RAJ |
Flyer of the Colloqium on Bilingualism |
You are required to attend at least one talk of the colloquium. |
| March 10 | First reports on the adopted dialects — Lecture slides | Prepare a 10-minute presentation in response to these questions. | The first two exercises of HW2 are due; also rest of Homework #2 assigned |
| March 12 | Movie screening of The Writing Code Part I ‘The Greatest Invention’ |
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| March 17 |
No class |
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| March 19 |
No class |
Homework #2 due | |
| March 21-30 |
Spring Break |
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| March 31 | Introducing Morphology – Arabic Morphology: Verbs — Lecture slides | Ryding’s Chapter 3 on Arabic word structure. – Ryding’s chapters 20 and 21 on verb morphology | |
| April 2 | Arabic verb Morphology: Presentations on Verb Patterns — Lecture slides | Ryding’s chapters 22-33 on verb patterns | |
| April 7 | Diglossia on TV — Arabic noun morphology —- Lecture slides | Read this article on diglossia in Arabic TV stations — Also read Ryding’s Chapter 5 | Write a 500-word response to the article — Homework #3 assigned |
| April 9 | Diglossia in TV commercials — Arabic noun morphology cont. — Lecture slides | Read this article on diglossia in Egyptian TV commercials — Also ‘selectively’ read Ryding’s Chapter 7 | Watch these TV commercials (and any others if you like) before coming to class — Make sure to notify the instructor of the topic of your research paper |
| April 14 | Diglossia and Arabic dubbing of foreign movies — Adjectives — Pronouns — Lecture slides | Read Ryding’s Chapter 10 and Ryding’s Chapters 12, 13, and 14 | Homework #3 due |
| April 16 | Presentations on the morphology of the adopted dialects | ||
| April 21 | Joint presentations and discussion of articles — (a) Kin Terms and Titles of Address in Jordanian Arabic — (b) Political and Social Impact on the Linguistic Behavior of Iraqis — (c) Arabic–Arabic Courtroom Translation in Lebanon | Homework #4 assigned | |
| April 23 | Language and gender — Lecture slides | Ibrahim (1986) and Sadiqi (2003) — Also read Ryding’s Chapter 8 | |
| April 28 | Arabic in the diaspora — Also Arabic syntax: Arabic syntax: The noun phrase الإضافة – Analytic possessives in the dialects — Negation — Interrogatives — Word order — Lecture slides | Read this article by Rouchdy on Arabic in the American diaspora — Ryding’s Chapters 4 and 17 | |
| April 30 | Analysis of dialectal texts — Also: Diglossic code-switching — Lecture slides | Make sure you fill in the ADAP dialect table with features — By now you should have finished reading Ryding’s Chapters 37 (pp. 641-650 only) and Chapter 38 | Homework #4 due on Friday May 2nd by 5pm |
| May 5 |
Research paper Presentations |
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| May 7 |
Research paper Presentations — Diglossia in the Egyptian Revolution — Wrap-up and Course response forms |
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| Monday May 12 |
Make-up session for individual discussions of research papers (Farrell @ 1:30-2:45) |
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| Monday May 19 |
Research paper or ADAP report due by 12noon |
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