1. January 16 Counting and classifying languages: genetic and typological classification (Lyovin, ch.1)
Language isolates: Basque
2. January 23
Tutorial 1 (Feb 3 – 5)
3.
February 6 The Uralic languages
Finnish
and Hungarian
4. February 13 Typological classification: morphological types (Lyovin, ch.1)
Thai, Hungarian, Latin, Russian, Ainu
The Altaic languages and word order typology (Lyovin, ch.4)
Manchu, Mongolian, Japanese and the Altaic problem
5. February 20 Oceania and the Austronesian languages (Lyovin, ch.6)
Hawaiian
Tutorial 2 (Feb 24 – 26)
6. February 27Australia: aboriginal
languages (Lyovin, ch.6)
Dyirbal
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7. March 13 Guest lecture: Sino-Tibetan and Southeast Asian languages (Lyovin, ch.4)
8. March 20 Midterm quiz; (multiple choice + short questions)
Tutorial 3 (March 24 –
26)
9. March 27 Linguistic and biological diversity: endangered languages and their habitats
10. April 3 The Americas; Navajo (Lyovin, ch.7)
Navajo
Tutorial 4 (April 14 –
16)
11. April 17 Review and preview; Course evaluation
12. April 24 Final quiz (multiple choice + short questions)
Ethnologue on-line
catalogue of languages
Terralingua: Partnerships for Linguistic
& Biological Diversity