Tutorial Series: Meta-theoretical issues in grammar-design.
Linguistic universals.
COURSE DETAILS
A course of not more than 40 lectures and a weekly 2-hour tutorial throughout the year. Course work will include periodic assignments and project work.
BOOKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading and reference:
Davis P W Modern Theories of Language, Prentice-Hall 1973 Langendoen D T The Study of Syntax, Holt Rinehart & Winston 1969 Leech G N Towards a Semantic Description of English, Longman 1969 (b) Prescribed textbooks:
Chomsky N Syntactic Structures, Mouton 1957
•Chomsky N Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, MIT Press 1965
Chomsky N Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar, Mouton 1972
•Fujimura 0 Three Dimensions of Linguistic Theory, TEC Co Ltd, Tokyo 1973
Katz J J & Postal P M An Integrated Theory of Linguistic Descriptions, MIT Press 1964
Kimball J P The Formal Theory of Grammar, Prentice-Hall 1973
•Langacker R W Fundamentals of Linguistic Analysis, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc 1972
• Stockwell R P Schachter P & Partee B H The Major Syntactic Struc- tures of English, Holt Rinehart & Winston 1973
Foreign Language Reading Courses (c) Sources and Background reference:
Anderson S R & Kiparsky P A Festschrift for Morris Halle, Holt Rine- hart & Winston 1973
Fillmore C J & Langendoen D T Studies in Linguistic Semantics, Holt Rinehart & Winston 1973
Fodor J & Katz J The Structure of Language. Prentice-Hall 1964 Gross M Mathematical Models in Linguistics, Prentice-Hall 1972 Harman G & Davidson D Semantics of Natural Language, Reidel 1972 Harris Z Methods in Structural Linguistics, Phoenix Books 1960
Harris Z Mathematical Structures of Language, Interscience John Wiley 1968
Hoenigswald H M Language Change and Linguistic Reconstruction, Phoenix Books 1960
Jackendoff R S Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar, MIT Press 1972
Katz J J Semantic Theory, Harper & Row 1972
McNeill D The Acquisition of Language, Harper & Row 1970
Menyuk P The Acquisition end Development of Language, Prentice- Hall 1971
Reibel D A & Schane S A Modern Studies in English, Prentice-Hall 1969
Rosenbaum P S The Grammar of English Predicate Complement Con- structions, MIT Press 1967
Schane S A Generative Phonology, Prentice-Hall 1972
Slobin D I & Ferguson C A Studies of Child Language Development, Holt Rinehart & Winston 1973
Steinberg D D & Jacobovits L A Semantics, CUP 1971 ASSESSMENT
Performance in Linguistics 2 will be assessed as follows:
(a) By assignments. Problem sheets and assignments on the program covered in the lecture series will be set at regular intervals and when returned at prescribed times will be allotted point scores contributing towards the final result.
(b) By tests. Two 90-minute class tests on the program covered in the tutorial series will be set and the point scores obtained will be credited towards the final result.
(c) By final examination. Not more than two 3-hour papers will be set on the contents of the entire course. Students with a consistent and satisfactory record of assignment work and class tests [(a) and (b) above] will be eligible for exemption from the final examination.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE READING COURSES FOR HONOURS ARTS STUDENTS
102-301 FRENCH READING COURSE
This subject may not be offered if the enrolment is less than five.
A course of two classes per week throughout the year, plus tutorial assistance and language laboratory practice as required.
SYLLABUS
The aim of the course is to enable honours students and research workers to read and translate source material in their field of study. To this end the course will provide intensive instruction in the sound, word and sen- 63
tance structure of French, practice in translation into English of extracts from a wide range of relevant publications, such as articles, textbooks, commentaries etc. selected in collaboration with the departments con- cerned.
The course presumes no previous knowledge of the language.
BOOKS
Prescribed textbooks:
•Brichant C French Grammar: The Key to Reading, Prentice-Hall Inc 1968 or later ed.
Brichant C French for the Humanities, Prentice-Hall Inc 1968 or later ed.
Further notes and texts will be provided by the Language Centre.
•Нarгa p's New Shoгteг French and English Dictionary Part I French- English, Harrap 1967 or later ed.
Recommended for reference:
Brereton G The Concise French Verb Book, ULP 1965 or later ed.
EXAMINATION
Terminal written examinations may be held during the year, as well as an annual written examination.
102-302 GERMAN READING COURSE
This subject may not be offered if the enrolment is less than five.
A course of two classes per week throughout the year plus tutorial assis- tance and language laboratory practice as required.
SYLLABUS
The aim of the course is to enable honours students and research workers to read and translate source material in their field of study. To this end the course will provide intensive instruction in the sound, word and sentence structure of German, practice in translation into English of extracts from a wide range of relevant publications, such as articles, textbooks, commentaries etc. selected in collaboration with the depart- ments concerned.
The course presumes no previous knowledge of the language.
BOOKS
Notes and texts will be provided by the Language Centre.
One of the following dictionaries:
• Langenscheidt's Concise Dictionary German-English, Hodder & Stough- ton 1967 or later edition.
or
The New Schöffler-Weiss Compact German and English Dictionary, Наггар 1969
EXAMINATION
Terminal written examinations may be held during the year as well as an annual written examination.
Classical Studies DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
Chairman of Department: Professor G. W. CLARKE, B.A. (Oxon), M.A. (N.Z. and Melbourne).
ORDINARY DEGREE
Details for the degree with honours are set out at the end of this section.
SUBJECTS OFFERED
Ancient Greek parts 1, 2 and 3.
Latin parts 1, 2 and 3.
Latin part 1A.
Modern Greek parts 1 and 2.
History 1C (Classical Studies 1A).
Classical Studies 26, 36 (not offered in 1975).
Classical Studies 2C, ЭC.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
Students are required to submit such written work as is prescribed during the year.
SYLLABUS
The syllabus for each part of Greek and Latin includes:
(i) Prescribed authors;
(ii) Unprepared translations;
(iii) Historical and literary studies.
In addition, parts 1, 1A and 2 have regular language classes.
Each examination on prescribed authors may include questions on section (iii) of the syllabus.
104-101 ANCIENT GREEK PART 1
N.B. Students intending to take this course must either have passed Ancient Greek at Higher School Certificate (or reached an equivalent standard) or have attended the Greek summer school held during Feb- ruary of each year. Students Intending to take the summer school must approach the department before the end of January.
SYLLABUS
A course of basic training in the Greek language along with the study of selected texts designed to provide an introduction to Greek tragedy.
BOOKS
Prescribed textbooks for 1975:
•North & Hillard Greek Prose Composition, Rivingtons
•Bryant & Lake An Elementary Greek Grammar, OUP or
•Goodwin School Greek Grammar, Macmillan
Euripides Scenes from Euripides' Trojan Women, ed Kinchin Smith and lodge, Macmillan
• Greek Tragedies, Voi 1 ed Grene and Lattimore, Phoenix Plato Martyrdom of Socrates, ed Doherty, OUP
Harvey P Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, OUP
•Liddell & Scott Greek-English Lexicon, Abridged version, OUP or 65 C
preferably (for those intending to do honours work), the unabridged version.
OPTIONAL ADDITIONAL WORK (see p. 28).
A course of 13 lectures on the Peloponnesian War.
Prescribed textbooks:
•Thucydides Athenian Disaster in Sicily, ed Marchant, Macmillan Thucydides The Peloponnesian War, Penguin
EXAMINATION
Not more than two 3-hour papers: written work done during the year and class-tests will be considered in determining the result.
104-201 ANCIENT GREEK PART 2 (PASS)
Three classes per week. A study will be made of the Iliad of Homer, Thucydides' History of the War between Athens and Sparta, and Plato and the Physical World (Timaeus).
BOOKS
Prescribed textbooks for 1975:
•Wilcock M M A Commentary on Homer's Iliad, Books 1-VI, Macmillan
•Homerus Ilias, Odyssee, ed Bruijn and Spoelder, Tjeenk Willink
•Thucydides Book 1, ed Marchant, Macmillan
•Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War, Penguin
•Plato Oxford Classical Text, vol IV ed Burnet, OUP
•Cornford F M Plato's Cosmology, Library of Liberal Arts paperback WRITTEN WORK
Students will be required to submit two essays of up to 3,000 words each during the course of the year.
EXAMINATION
Up to two 3-hour papers. Written work done during the year will be considered in determining the result.
104-301 ANCIENT GREEK PART 3 (PASS)
Four classes per week. A study will be made of the Iliad of Homer, Thucydides' History of the War between Athens and Sparta, and Plato and the Physical World (Timaeus).
BOOKS
Prescribed textbooks for 1975:
•Wilcock M M A Commentary on Homer's Iliad, Books I-VI, Macmillan
•Homerus Ilias, Odyssee, ed Bruijn and Spoeldar, Tjeenk Willink
•Thucydides Book I, ed Marchant, Macmillan
•Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War, Penguin
•Plato Oxford Classical Text, vol IV ed Burnet, OUP
• Cornford F M Plato's Cosmology, Library of Liberal Arts paperback
• Greek Lyric Poetry, ed Campbell, Macmillan WRITTEN WORK
Students will be required to submit two essays of up to 3,000 words each during the course of the year.
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Classical Studies EXAMINATION
Up to two 3-hour papers. Written work done during the year will be considered in determining the result.