In the course of this seminar, we will apply tools from syntactic and semantic research to analyze forms and meanings that are fully functional in dialects of English such as varieties of Irish English or African American English, but which are not well known or utilized outside the respective communities.
Selected introductory references (full syllabus to be distributed at the beginning of class):
Green, L. J. (2002). African American English: a linguistic introduction. Cambridge University Press.
Henry, A. (1995). Belfast English and Standard English: Dialect variation and parameter setting. Oxford University Press. |
