The Writing Intensive Program has just released Volume 5, Issue 2 of The Classic, their second special issue featuring five articles from students in Generative Syntax (LING 3150W). This issue was guest edited by Dr. Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Associate Professor of linguistics, and Jonathan Crum, linguistics PhD student. The Classic Journal is dedicated to showcasing critical writing and research composed by University of Georgia undergraduate students.
Guest Editor Jonathan Crum writes:
The five essays that comprise this special issue of The Classic are initial investigations into the structure of specific natural languages. Each one examines a fragment of a specific human language and, using the methodological tools of generative syntax, puts forth a model grammar that may be used to formulate new hypotheses about the fine structure of our language faculty....Each contribution can be taken as the starting point of further investigation into the fine structure of our innate ability for language.
Articles include: "Parallelism in Language: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of English and Indonesian" by Michael Wolfman, "Indonesian Versus English Revisited: More Similarities Unveiled" by Drew Felt, "Creating Conversation: A Comparison of English and Turkish Phrase Structures" by Emily Towery, "The Unrealized Universality of Phrase Structure: An Analysis of Similarities Between Japanese and English" by Dante 'Alpha' Smith, and "Under the Surface: A Linguistic Analysis of German's Hidden Word Order" by Skyler Buxton.