Piotr Bański's teaching page (winter '09)

Last modified: Thu Feb 04 00:37:20 2010 CET

• Teaching in the winter '09 semester:
  • Syntax (1^st year)
  • Introduction to Generative Syntax (#1610, Wed, 2 p.m., room 224)
  • Introduction to Generative Morphology (#1603, Wed, 4 p.m., room 408)
  • The Origin and Development of English (Sun 11.15, room 409)
  • Lexicography: Creating and Using Dictionaries (Sun 10.00, room 424)
  • Information Technology

• Office hours during the winter semester (room 425):

  • Tuesdays, 11 – 11.45
  • Wednesdays, 11 – 11.45

  Please mail me in advance to set up a meeting ('bansp' at the o2.pl address).

• Syntax, 1^st year

  • Meetings:
    • Tue, 12 p.m. — room 215
    • Tue, 2 p.m. — room 408
    • Wed, 12 p.m. — room 422
  • Course readings:
    • Syntactic Theory: A Unified Approach, 1^st edition (mind you!), by Robert Borsley
    • Generative Grammar, by Andrew Radford (1988)
  • Homework: enter the moodle space.

• Introduction to Generative Syntax (#1610)

  • Course reading: Syntactic Theory: A Unified Approach, 2^nd edition, by Robert Borsley
  • Moodle space for the course

• Introduction to Generative Morphology (#1603)

  • Course book: What is Morphology by Mark Aronoff and Kirsten Fudeman
  • Moodle space for the course

• The Origin and Development of English (1^st year)

  • Basic reading: Charles Barber, The English language: a historical introduction, chs. 5–8.
  • Additional readings:
    • An Old English Reader, by Alfred Reszkiewicz
    • The Origins and Development of the English Language, by Thomas Pyles and John Algeo
    • An Outline History of English, vol. I, by Jacek Fisiak
  • Moodle space for the course

• Lexicography: creating and using dictionaries (2^nd year)

  Visit the moodle page for news, homeworks, etc.

  And if you can't get in there, it means you have no e-mail address set in the USOS (I can't understand why the system doesn't simply force every student to set up an e-mail account; this is so very Polish, to create a universal enroll-me-for-courses, get-me-in-touch-with-teachers, wash-my-socks-and-what-not supercomputer system, and forget about one little detail at its door that makes the entire shiny edifice unenterable), so please spend the necessary minute doing so, by visiting the e-mail registration page. Thanks. And no, not being able to enter the moodle and download materials will not count as an excuse, you've had my e-mail address since day 1, you could have asked for help... right?

• Information Technology

  I happen to coordinate the teaching of this subject at our Institute. This means working with the teachers on all of the details that happen behind the scenes and then pop up on the moodle. All student feedback, preferably of the constructive kind, is appreciated — please use the course fora to share your remarks with us.

  The students are divided into five groups, which are distributed between two 'course spaces' — this is because we believe that in this case, quantity may in fact enhance the quality, by stimulating interaction and sharing of knowledge. The links to the two course spaces are provided below.

  • Moodle space for groups taught by Barbara Bienias and Justyna Karczmarczyk.
  • Moodle space for groups taught by Joanna Jodłowska and Tomasz Śliwowski.