RU232 Origin and Nature of Human Language
		RU 232 The Origin and Nature of Human Language Assignments The following page provides course assignment information. Assignments and dates are tentative and may be adjusted depending on class progress. Assignment 1 Write: Give a five page description of your language. Due Date: Send via e-mail before midnight Friday, Sept. 17. Read: Encyclopedia, pp. 1-16, 288-303; Seeds, pp. 3-46 Web: Work through this following site-do the exercises:http://www.exploratorium.com/exploring/index.html Write: One page own best theory of language origin; five words that exist in your language, but not in English; five expressions or grammatical structures unique to your language. Due Date: Send via e-mail before noon on Sept. 21. Bring hard copy to class.   Assignment 2 Read: Encyclopedia, pp. 81-107, 158-159; Seeds, pp. 49-104 Web: Read the following article: http://www.middlebury.edu/~harris/linguistics.html Write: Two to three page brief history of your language's origin and development. Due Date: Send via e-mail before noon on Sept. 28. Assignment 3 Read: Encyclopedia, pp. 84-85, 396-397, 304-327; Seeds, pp. 107-157; consult weeb links on IPA and your language. Write: Web page outline of your final project with section on history, a basic linguistic description and selected links. Due Date: Send web address to me via e-mail before 12:01AM (one minute past midnight) on Tuesday, Oct. 5 Assignment 4 Read: Encyclopedia, pp. 108-115, 404-406; Seeds, pp. 161-221 Write: Provide etymology of fifty (50)common words in your language; explain development and historical changes in ten of them Due Date: Provide web URL to me via e-mail before 12:01AM (one minute past midnight) on Tuesday, Oct.12   Assignment 5 Read: Encyclopedia, pp. 177- 225; Seeds, pp. 194-225 Write: Description and history of your language's writing system. Provide links to fonts. Prepare page as a graphic image if employing foreign fonts!!! Due Date: Provide web URL to me via e-mail before 12:01AM (one minute past midnight) on Tuesday, Oct.26   Assignment 6 Read: Encyclopedia, pp. 124-175 Write: Anthropological description of your language's family. Provide links. Discuss briefly relation to theory of Nostratic. Due Date: Provide web URL to me via e-mail before 12:01AM (one minute past midnight) on Tuesday,Nov. 2.   Assignment 7 Read: Encyclopedia, pp. 257-281; 395-403. Write: Complete work on draft of origina and history of your language Due Date: Provide web URL to me via e-mail before 12:01AM (one minute past midnight) on Tuesday, Nov. 9.   Assignment 8 Read: Encyclopedia, pp. 227-255; Standards for Foreign Language Learning Write: Complete work on draft of origin and history of your language Due Date: Provide web URL to me via e-mail before 12:01AM (one minute past midnight) on Tuesday, Nov. 16.   Assignment 9 Write: Complete work on draft of structure/nature of your language Due Date: Provide web URL to me via e-mail before 12:01AM (one minute past midnight) on Tuesday, Nov. 23.   Assignment 10 Prepare: In class presentation of Origin and History of .... Due Date: Provide web URL to me via e-mail before 12:01AM (one minute past midnight) on Tuesday, Nov. 30.     Assignment 11 Prepare: In class presentation of Nature of .... Due Date: Provide web URL to me via e-mail before 12:01AM (one minute past midnight) on Tuesday, Dec. 7.