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UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS DEPARTMENT OF WORLD LANGUAGES
SPAN 717-SEMINAR IN SPANISH LINGUISTICS COURSE DESCRIPTION This course provides and introduction to structure of the Spanish language within framework of theoretical linguistics. Topics covered include analysis of Spanish sound system, word formation processes, and sentence structure. It also includes a panorama of the history of Spanish, and topics in Spanish pragmatics and semantics. The course is taught in Spanish. LEARNING OUTCOMES At the end of this course, students will be expected to:
• identify and classify the phonemes and allophones of Spanish • describe and analyze the morphological processes in Spanish • analyze the structure of simple and compound sentences in Spanish within syntactic theory • explain in general terms the historical evolution of Spanish • identify and apply general concepts of semantics and pragmatics
COURSE TEXT ILH
Hualde, J., Olarrea, A., Escobar, A, and Travis, C.(2010, second edition). Introducción a la lingüística hispánica. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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REQUIRED READINGS ( * on reserve at the Lied Library) Abbreviation Reference
GDLLa Mendikoetsea, Amaya. (1999) Construcciones con se: Medias, pasivas e impersonales. In Ignacio Bosque y Violeta Demonte. Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española. Madrid: Espasa
GDLLb Rojo, Guillermo y Veiga, Alexandre (1999). El tiempo. Los tiempos simples. In Ignacio Bosque y Violeta
Demonte. Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española. Madrid: Espasa
GDLLc Ridruejo, Emilio. (1999). Modo y modalidad. El modo en las subordinadas sustantivas. In Ignacio Bosque y Violeta Demonte. Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española. Madrid: Espasa
FGCLE (*)
Nuñez Cedeño, Rafael A. and Morales-Front, Alfonso. (1999). Fonología generativa contemporánea de la lengua española. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press
TSOS José Ignacio Hualde. (2005). The sounds of Spanish. Cambridge University Press.
PVUCP (*) Fernandez Lopez, Maria del Carmen. (1999). Preposiciones : valores y usos, construcciones preposicionales. Salamanca: Ediciones Colegio de España.
GRAE Real Academia Española. (2009). Nueva gramática de la lengua española. Morfología/Sintaxis I. Madrid: Espasa Libros. (sections are specified below in GRAE chapter presentation)
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RECOMMENDED READINGS: Akmajian, Adrian, Demers, Richard, Farmer, Ann, & Harnish, Robert (2010). Linguistics: An introduction to language and
communication. Boston: MIT Press. Azevedo, Milton. (2009). Introducción a la lingüística española. New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Bosque, Ignacio. (1998). Las categorías gramaticales. Madrid: Editorial Síntesis Clark, John, and C. Yallop. (1989). An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. Blackwell: Oxford Crystal, David (1997). A dictionary of linguistic and phonetics. Cambridge: Blackwell. Demonte, Violeta. (1991). Detrás de la palabra. Madrid: Alianza. Finegan, Edward (2007). Language its structure and use. Harcourte Brace College Publishers. King, L., & Suñer, M. (2007). Gramática española: Análisis y práctica. New York: McGraw-Hill. Posner, Rebecca. (1996). The Romance languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Schwegler, Armin, Juergen Kempff and Ana Ameal-Guerra. (2010). Fonética y fonología españolas. New York: Wiley. Stewart, Thomas W., Ed. (2007). Language Files. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. Wotjak, Gerd, (ed.). (1996). El verbo español: aspectos morfosintácticos, sociolingüísticos y lexicogenéticos. Frankfurt
am Main : Vervuert ; Madrid : Iberoamericana.
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GRADING: Attendance & class participation 10% Assignments (x2) 40% GRAE chapter presentation 10% Article reaction paper 10% Take-Home Midterm Exam 15% Final Exam (in-class exam) 15% ATTENDANCE AND CLASS PARTICIPATION (10%) Participation is vital. Students must come to class fully prepared to discuss all reading assigned for that day. Punctuality is very important. Attendance is necessary; however, you will be allowed one undocumented absence (1 session). Beginning with the second absence, your class participation grade will be adversely affected. The instructor will use WebCampus mail to communicate with students. She also will post weekly announcements on WebCampus. It is the student’s responsibility to check WebCampus on a daily basis. ASSIGNMENTS (40%) There will be two assignments and they will include problem-solving tasks. Instructions for each assignment will be posted on WebCampus a week before the due date. Format:
• typed written assignment • Student Name • # of assignment • # of pages top right • double spaced • font: Times New Roman • size: 12
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The instructor will not accept late assignments.
GRAE CHAPTER PRESENTATION (10%) Students will make a 15-minute oral presentation on one of the following chapters from the “Nueva gramática de la lengua española” (Real Academia Española):
1) Presente del indicativo 2) Pretérito perfecto simple del indicativo 3) Pretérito imperfecto del indicativo 4) Pretérito pluscuamperfecto del indicativo 5) Futuro simple del indicativo 6) Presente del subjuntivo 7) Pretérito imperfecto del subjuntivo 8) Pretérito pluscuamperfecto del subjuntivo 9) Condicional
The oral presentation will be accompanied by a handout prepared according to a template created by the instructor and posted on WebCampus. After the oral presentation, all students will send an electronic of their handouts to the class (Word file).
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ARTICLE REACTION PAPER (10%) The students will write a reaction paper on one of the following articles: GDLLa Mendikoetsea, Amaya. (1999) Construcciones con se: Medias, pasivas e impersonales. In Ignacio Bosque
y Violeta Demonte. Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española. Madrid: Espasa
GDLLb Rojo, Guillermo y Veiga, Alexandre (1999). El tiempo. Los tiempos simples. In Ignacio Bosque y Violeta Demonte. Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española. Madrid: Espasa
GDLLc Ridruejo, Emilio. (1999). Modo y modalidad. El modo en las subordinadas sustantivas. In Ignacio Bosque
y Violeta Demonte. Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española. Madrid: Espasa
The reaction paper must be typed (double-spaced) and should be no longer than a page to a page and a half long. Place your name and date in the header (top left page). These papers do not require the use of a cover page. I. Bibliographic information (APA Style) II. Major points in the article (Must be in narrative format)
a. The reaction paper must be written in Spanish. b. Make sure you include a summary and an evaluation paragraphs. c. Write in third person- do not include personal opinions or the use of personal nouns such as “yo”, “nosotros” or
“a mí”. “Yo, nosotros, a mí" belong in the evaluation section where you are relating personal opinions, not in the summary.
d. The reaction paper must be typed and double-spaced. e. The reaction paper should be at least one page, but no more than a page and a half. f. Inclusive language should be used in the reaction paper (for example: gender references should be written as
“él/ella” when the gender in unknown. g. No citations are necessary (within the paper) h. Read additional instructions published on WebCampus.
(Modified from www.myweb.wssu.edu , retrieved on 8/19/2012)
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MIDTERM EXAM (15%) The take-home midterm exam will cover chapters 1, 2 and 3. Topics will cover all the additional readings required in the course. Students will submit both electronic and printed copies. FINAL EXAM (15%) The open-book final exam will be comprehensive. Topics will cover the textbook, the reaction paper readings, and three of the GRAE chapters assigned in the course. The exam has two sections. In the first section, you will have to briefly define basic linguistic concepts. In the second section, you will be asked to solve exercises. This is an in-class exam.
ATTENTION!
IT IS THE STUDENT’S RESPONSIBILITY TO REGULARLY CHECK HIS/HER REBELMAIL. ALL THE MESSAGES FROM THE INSTRUCTOR WILL BE SENT USING THE WEBCAMPUS MAIL TOOL.
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COURSE CALENDAR WEEK TOPIC REQUIRED READINGS HOMEWORK 1 Introduction
• What is linguistics? • Prescriptivism/descriptivism • ompentence/performance
• ILH. pp. 1-43
2 Phonetics
• Sounds of Spanish. • Allophones/phonemes
Phonology
• Main phonological processes. • Phonetic transcription.
• ILH pp. 45-66 • TSOS pp. 102-117
3 • Consonants of Spanish • ILH pp 88-99
• FGCLE Chapter 1
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4 Phonology
• Consonants of Spanish • Vowels of Spanish • The syllable; stress. • Intonation.
• ILH pp 100-122 • FGCLE pp 23-42
5 Morphology
• Morphemes and allomorphs. Inflectional/derivational morphology; morphological analysis
• ILH pp 123-165
Assignment 1 due
6 Morphology
• Flexive morphology
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• ILH pp 137-165 • GDLLa
7 Morphology
• Derivational morphology
• ILH pp 166-200 • GDLLb
8 Syntax
• Sentence/constituent structure
Take-Home Midterm Exam Due
• ILH pp 201-238
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9 Syntax
• Sentence/constituent structure • Word order
• ILH pp 239-278 • PVUCP pp 13-53
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Spring Break
11 Syntax
• Sentence/constituent structure • Word order
• GDLLc
12 History of the Spanish Language
• From Latin to Spanish Morphological, syntactic and lexical change
• ILH pp 304-338 • ILH pp 340-362
Assignment 2 due
13 Semantics and Pragmatics
• Semantic roles • Deixis • Discourse Pragmatics
• ILH pp 363-389
Reaction paper due
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GRAE chapter presentations • Presente del indicativo • Pretérito perfecto simple del
indicativo Futuro simple del indicativo
• Pretérito imperfecto del indicativo • Pretérito pluscuamperfecto del
indicativo Presente del subjuntivo
15 GRAE chapter presentations
• Pretérito imperfecto del subjuntivo • Pretérito pluscuamperfecto del
subjuntivo • Condicional
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Study week
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FINAL EXAM
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