WEEK 3
- Discussion of the previous week's assignment: facts and new facts
presented in Emonds and Faarlund's (2014) Introduction and Chapter 2.
- Skepticism about the role of syntax in reconstructing
genealogical relations.
- Emonds and Faarlund's presentation and discussion of the change
from OV to VO in the history of English and their treatment of Pintzuk
and Taylor (2006) - the slides
presented in class are available here.
ASSIGNMENT:
Read the first nine pages of the
paper
downloadable here (pages 227-235).
Highlight all the
facts
and
new facts presented by
the author in those pages.
Whenever you find a technical term you don't fully understand,
look it up!