Schedule CLAS 196 Indo-European Spring 2020
Readings and exercises to be completed by class time of the day they
are assigned below.
- Jan 14, 16
- Thurs: Fortson Introductory Chapter: exercises 2-4
- Jan 21, 23
- Tues.: Fortson Culture Chapter: exercises 1-2
- Thurs.: Fortson Culture Chapter: exercises 3-6
- Jan 28, 30
- Tues.: Fortson Phonology: exercises 1-3
- Thurs.: Fortson Phonology: exercises 4-6
- Feb 4 (Feb 6 is Latin Day)
- Tues.: Fortson Morphology: exercises 1-11
- Quiz will include PIE roots 1-8 as found on quizlet
- Thurs.: LATIN DAY
- Feb 11, 13
- Tues.: Fortson: The Verb: exercises 1-7
- Thurs.: Fortson: The Verb: exercises 8-17
- Quiz to include more PIE roots as found on quizlet
- Feb 18, 20
- Fortson: finish 5 the Verb
- Feb 25, 27
- Fortson: the Noun
- Tuesday:
- March 3, 5
- March 3 is town meeting day: no class.
- March 10, 12 SPRING BREAK
- CLASSES GO REMOTE FROM HERE ON: read/watch/do everything
listed here for that day by that day. To be clear: what is
listed for a particular day is meant to be done by that day.
- March 17, 19
- March 19:
- PIE in a remote world
- Document about changes in
remote world
- Fortson: Germanic
- Read Fortson 15 from beginning at least through the Horn
of Gallehus text and make quiz questions on those parts of
the chapter.
- Midterms returned via email
- Don't forget to post a quiz question and daily comment.
- March 23, 25
- March 23
- Fortson 15: Germanic
- Finish reading Fortson 15 and make quiz questions on that.
- Exercises 1-5 due. The best would be to hand them in as a
word document, but any common format (pdf, html, or doc)
will do.
- Quiz question and daily comment posted?
- March 25
- Fortson 10: Indic
- CHOOSE A TOPIC
FOR YOUR PRESENTATION: hand in description of your
project by email.
- Exercise 10.1: How
To Do This Exercise (warning, this powerpoint is
entirely derived from Fortson: you don't need it if you are
already maneuvering through Fortson handily).
- A little intro to Devanagari,
the Sanskrit alphabet.
- Quiz question and daily comment posted? (I'll stop
bothering you about it: just be sure you post them every
class day).
- March 31, April 2
- March 31
- Indic continued: Do Fortson Chapter 10 exercises 5, 6, and
7. I'd like you to do 4 and 9 too, but they seem more
difficult, so you may not arrive at confident answers.
- Live session: I'd like to hold a live session of
class. It is entirely optional, but I feel disconnected from
you and worry about that and you. Let's try our regular
class time. I'll invite you to a Microsoft Teams meeting and
it should be relatively easy for you to join it: it has
worked very well in another class of mine. I don't really
plan on lecturing or presenting new material, just hoping to
touch base and explain anything you wonder about. So it
should be useful, but low key. I'll record it in case
someone who wasn't there wants to listen later.
- I know I was going to stop, but once more, quiz question?
daily comment? Go back to the Indic chapter and find
questions toward the end of the chapter...
- April 2:
- Another Live session for anyone who wants to come. It's on
MS teams: you should get a reminder automagically: when I
invited you to these sessions, they were set up for every
Tuesday and Thursday at 10:05.
- Makeup and self-correction of exercises: most of
you handed in PDF's or images, and I can't see a way to
correct them and get them back to you, so I've made up
answer keys to the Germanic exercises and the first set of
Indic exercises (10.1). I'll post answers to the Indic
exercises after you hand them in on March 31. Please
self-correct them and ask questions.
- Also, I'll be making the final take home and open
book. It will consist of your quiz questions (with some
variations) and additional exercises, like the midterm. So
it is very much in your interest to self-correct those
exercises and to ask questions about the exercises
as well as any quiz questions you don't find good answers
to.
- did you forget anything? q and dc?
- April 7, 9
- April 7:
- Fortson 12 Greek
- Fortson 12 exercises 1-6
- April 9:
- April 14, 16
- Tocharian Chapter: exercises 1-6
- Do your best: these languages are clearly not as fully
understood as some others and are significantly different. I
hope you can see the connections Fortson is pointing us
toward in the exercises.
- Live
session on exercises: works thru them all. If the link
does not work, please ask me for it: I haven't tried linking
it this way before.
- an excellent Hittite PDF
from Colton's professor in Leyden
- Colton presents Tocharian texts
- CLASS PRESENTATIONS DUE: these should be in a format you can
use to make a presentation to the class (powerpoint is the
most frequently used for this, but you can use any format you
like that works).
- April 21, 23
- April 28, 30
- April 28
- Thomas
- Corynne
- Briggs
- IN PDF
FORMAT
- Jon
Tremblay
- April 30
- Annie M.
- Abbie M
- Patrick
M
- Alexandra
J
- AJ Gregoritsch
on Hittite
- IN PDF FORMAT
(HUGE FILE)
- FINAL VERSION OF CLASS PRESENTATIONS GO LIVE
- FINAL
- The Final was sent to you as a word document by email: it is
take home and open book.
- Final is due Tuesday May 5 at 4PM
- There are a few known
issues with the final: please let me know if you think
you have found further problems: check this document before
turning it in to make sure you optimize your performance.
Quizzes and daily reading: each class, you are to hand in
a quiz question on a 3X5 notecard: it can be multiple choice or
some other question type. Question on the front of the card, your
name, the date, and your answer on the back. Quizzes will be
chosen from these questions. Questions that are not appropriate
will not count.
Your final percentage on quiz grades cannot be higher than the
percentage of quiz questions you have handed in: it's pay to play.
This
course is built on daily reading and understanding.
Conscientious preparation is crucial both for lively
group discussion, and for gaining a coherent
understanding of
the material we are examining. You should budget 2–3 hours for
each day’s reading. Your base grade in this category comes from
daily quizzes; your cumulative quiz average can then be adjusted
up somewhat (not down) through informed participation in
discussion (cumulative hunch at end of term).
For each day’s reading, make one multiple choice (or
other format) question relating to that day’s reading. Your
question should not be too abstruse: focus on some large issue
that a careful reader will appreciate, or startlingly memorable
detail that you’d have to be asleep to miss. Write it clearly on one
side of an index
card so
that other students will able to read it when projected in front
of the class. On the other side, write your name
and the date in
the upper
left, and the answer in
the middle. Like this:
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Front (the side with
lines)
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Back
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What is the neo-grammarian hypothesis?
A. The idea that a sound
change that happens in one word will happen in every
word that is relevantly similar.
B. The idea that we can
locate the Proto-Indo-European homeland via linguistic
reconstruction.
C. A rejection of
traditional categorizations such as "noun" and "verb" in
favor of a typology of language elements based not on
'words' but phrasal units.
D. The latest and
greatest idea in Glottalic theory..
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Zorgunthol Shroomalude
2/22/20
A
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It does not have to be multiple choice: that is offered here as an
example.
Exercises: We will do the exercises in Fortson insofar as
possible. Expect to hand in the exercises on the day for which
they are assigned.
Presentations: You may work alone or with a group. Present
a unit of material from James Clackson's Indo-European
Linguistics OR a resumé of the nature of the
evidence available and relevant sociocultural material for one of
the language-chapters of Fortson.
Paper: deepen the material of your presentation into a 5-7
page paper OR switch topics, but only with Prof. Bailly's
approval.
Midterm and Final: quiz questions and more, to be
agreed upon.
