LING 068 — Fall 2024
Structure of Kyrgyz

Professor:Jonathan North Washington
Office:Pearson 105
Office phone:x6134
Office hours:W 13:30-15:00
F 10:30-11:30
& by appointment
Email/messaging: jwashin1@swarth...more.edu
 
Meeting time:M 1:15pm-4:00pm
Classroom:Pearson 115
Course website: http://jnw.domains.swarthmore.edu/ling068
Course Moodle site: F24 - LING068.01

Course Syllabus

Schedule (updated periodically)

weekdatetopicdue
(on Monday)
linguistic readings
1 9 Sep

Course outline

Sound system

2 16 Sep

Sound system

Writing systems

Morphology and phonology

Assignment 1

Abigail Kaun (2004) - The Typology of Rounding Harmony

Washington (2024) - Vowel Harmony in Turkic Languages

3 23 Sep

More morphology and phonology

Pronouns and copulas

Assignment 2

Hanzhi Zhu (2018) - Sonorant Restrictions in Kyrgyz

4 30 Sep

Nominal morphology

Assignment 3

Bernard Comrie (1997) - Turkic languages and linguistic typology

5 7 Oct

More nouns

Adjectives

Reduplication

Assignment 4

Bonnie Krejci & Lelia Glass (2015) - The Kazakh Noun/Adjective Distinction

14 Oct Fall break!
6 21 Oct

The lexicon, dictionaries

Assignment 5

Final project topic selection (Wed.)

7 28 Oct

Tense/aspect system

Assignment 6

Irina Nevskaya & Saule Tazhibayeva (2018) - The category of proximative in North-Western Turkic: Kazakh and Kirgiz in a comparative perspective

8 4 Nov

Evidentiality

Assignment 7

Christopher Straughn (2011) - Evidentiality in Uzbek and Kazakh (additional resource)

9 11 Nov

TBA

discussion of movie

10 18 Nov

Voice

Assignment 8

Final project proposal (Wed.)

Nedjalkov (2003) - Kirghiz reciprocals (/2)

11 25 Nov

Non-finite verb forms

Assignment 9

Lars Johanson (1995) - On Turkic converb clauses

Washington et al. (2022) - Non-finite verb forms in Turkic exhibit syncretism, not multifunctionality

12 2 Dec

Quotatives

"Modal nominals"

Ideophones

Assignment 10

Jendraschek (2001) - Semantic and structural properties of Turkish ideophones

13 9 Dec

Kyrgyz and other Turkic languages

The history of Turkic

Assignment 11

Assignment 12

Washington (2013) - Turkic-Turkic convergence in Altay varieties

Washington (2023) - What Can We Learn From the Mongolic Material in Kazakh and Kyrgyz?

17 Dec

(9:00-12:00) Final project presentations!

TBA

Final project writeup