| Greetings!

Welcome to the website of Ling 201, spring 2007, discussions 1 and 6.

Ling 201, Introduction to Linguistics
Prof. Chris Potts

Section 1: Fridays, 1:25-2:15, Machmer E33
Section 6: Fridays, 11:15-12:05, Machmer W27

Main course website: http://courses.umass.edu/ling201/

| TA contact information

Amy Rose Deal
Teaching assistant

Office: South College 303
Office hours: Wednesday 2:30-3:30

Please contact me via email. My email is:

If you cannot come to my office hours but would like to meet with me, please send me an email and we can arrange a meeting.

Please note also that my first name is 'Amy Rose', two words, no punctuation.

Note: I will be using this site only to post material from discussion sections. For general course handouts, including homework assignments, see the main course page.

Friday, Feb 2
Topic: introductions, course policies, and grammaticality

• A couple of policies were announced today. Chief among them are the following: (1) no late homework, (2) no homework by email, (3) office hours from 2:30-3:30 on Wednesdays.
• We talked about grammaticality and the subfields of linguistics.
• HW #1 was collected.

Friday, Feb 9
Topic: prescriptivism again, category tests for N

• There was a quiz.
• HW #1 was returned.

Friday, Feb 16
Topic: syntactic categories

• HW #2 was collected.
• Quiz #1 was returned.
• We ran through some exercises in syntactic categories: near (A or P?) and gerunds.

Friday, Feb 23
Topic: Test 1

• The first test is today. If you can't make it to section, you need to arrange to take it early. You will have the whole class period to complete the test, and you may use your notes and course pack.

Friday, March 2
Topic: Morphology

• We talked about morphological rules and morphological trees.
• There was a quiz.

Friday, March 9
Topic: Morphology

• Assignment 3 was due

Friday, March 16
No class.

Friday, March 23
Spring break. No class.

Friday, March 30
Topic: Trees; logic problems

• Quiz 3 was today.
• Assignment 4 was due.

Friday, April 6
Topic: How to draw trees

• There was a quiz.
• Assignment 5 was due.

Friday, April 13
Topic: Test 2

• The second test is today. If you can't make it to section, you need to arrange to take it early. You will have the whole class period to complete the test, and you may use your notes and course pack.