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This course investigates the syntax of human language, or the portion of language knowledge that deals with the structure and word order of sentences. Students will explore the varying ways in which languages express grammatical relationships and concepts such as possession, tense and aspect, case, number agreement, passive voice, and question formation. We will look at the methods that the field of linguistics has for creating scientific models to explain human knowledge of language, and we will use these models to make predictions about the representation of language in the mind. We will take a critical approach, meaning that we will examine the problem of modeling language structure from a variety of different frameworks, comparing how the approaches succeed and fail at capturing different phenomena and discussing which models better account for the data. We will focus primarily on English, but also take into account a wide variety of languages from multiple language families.

Students will evaluate existing Wikipedia pages on grammatical concepts such as verb valence, case, and tense and aspect. They will also research and contribute to an entry for either a syntactic theory or a woman syntactitian.

Student	Assigned	Reviewing
Bohlkeli
JeanLackE	Arc pair grammar
Calalang	Joan Bresnan
Ewingleo	Lila Gleitman
PaisleyDragon
Estherliebowitz	Lisa Green (linguist)
Styx&Valley	Lilianne Haegemann
The uncle eli	Cognitive grammar
Nicopufff007	Raffaella Zanuttini
Need a nap zzz	Oladele Awobuluyi
Mkm566645	Erika Hoff
Gottoben	Generalized phrase structure grammar

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings

Thursday, 30 August 2018

In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment

Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:

Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
Evaluating Wikipedia

Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 2

Course meetings

Tuesday, 4 September 2018 | Thursday, 6 September 2018

Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

Evaluate an article

In class - Discussion

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 3

Course meetings

Tuesday, 11 September 2018 | Thursday, 13 September 2018

Assignment - Exercise

Choose your topic / Find your sources

In class - Discussion

What's a content gap?

Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Linguistics

Week 4

Course meetings

Tuesday, 18 September 2018 | Thursday, 20 September 2018

Assignment - Add to an article

Exercise

Add a citation

Week 5

Course meetings

Tuesday, 25 September 2018 | Thursday, 27 September 2018

Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 6

Course meetings

Tuesday, 2 October 2018 | Thursday, 4 October 2018

Assignment - Peer review an article

Guiding framework

In class - Discussion

Thinking about Wikipedia

Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Week 7

Course meetings

Tuesday, 9 October 2018 | Thursday, 11 October 2018

Assignment - Respond to your peer review

You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:

Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Week 8

Course meetings

Tuesday, 16 October 2018 | Thursday, 18 October 2018

Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 9

Course meetings

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 | Thursday, 1 November 2018

Assignment - Continue improving your article

Exercise

Add links to your article

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Week 10

Course meetings

Tuesday, 6 November 2018 | Thursday, 8 November 2018

Assignment - Polish your work

Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Week 11

Course meetings

Tuesday, 13 November 2018 | Thursday, 15 November 2018

Assignment - Final article

It's the final week to develop your article.

Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Week 12

Course meetings

Tuesday, 27 November 2018 | Thursday, 29 November 2018

In class - In-class presentation

Guiding questions

Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.

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