1	What is Linguistics? January 8, 2002
2	LingLinks The Gateway to 490 Mecca Readings Lecture Notes Important Sites And Much, Much More www.ttt.org/linglinks/
3	A Brief History of Linguistics Latin and French Models Historical Comparative Method American Structuralism Generativism
4	Timeline Tower of Babel Ancient Greeks Dark Ages Late 1600’s - Descartes and Port Royal Grammar 1786 - Historical Linguistics began with William Jones Early 1900’s - printing of Saussure
5	Latin & French Models 13^th & 14^th Centuries Origins of Present Grade School Grammar
6	Historical Comparative Method Sir William Jones (1748-1794) Continued through the 19^th Century Diachronic Linguistics
7	American Structuralism Dominated the Early Half of the Twentieth Century Leonard Bloomfield major disciple Synchronic Linguistics Characteristics?
8	1900’s Saussure Sapir Bloomfield Hockett Pike - American Structuralist
9	Is American Structuralism alive today? The Summer Institute of Linguistics “Linguistics in SIL focuses on researching undocumented minority languages, training field linguists, and providing resources to assist in linguistic data collection and analysis” (www.sil.org/linguistics) Anthropology
10	Generativism Dominated the latter half of the 20^th Century Noam Chomsky major disciple Fundamental Assumptions?
11	1950’s Zellig Harris - Chomsky’s mentor 1957 - Chomsky’s first published book Syntactic Structures
12	1960’s 1965 - Chomsky’s next book Aspects
13	1970’s The “Linguistic Wars” begin!
14	1980’s New Lakoff
15	1990’s Minimalism - i.e. Andrew Radford’s Introduction to Minimalism