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Teaching ASSC 1010 - Italian for beginners (Dalhousie) : [correspondence, flyers, minutes]

File includes correspondence with Dean Graham Taylor, Roberta Mazzanati, Tony Farrell (SMU), J. E. Holloway (Spanish), Giulio Molinaro (U of Toronto), Ruba Afani, Suzanne Garnier, Silvia Giuliani regarding the launching of Italian studies at Dalhousie University. Also included are minutes from the French department and a course evaluation for ASSC 1010 - Italian for beginners.

Teaching linguistics 2340 - semantics (Saint Mary's University) : [Sebastian Löbner, Understanding Semantics, unbound, annotated copy for use in class]

This course analyzed how words and sentences convey meaning in language. Students learn how lexical items can be represented in terms of their semantic components and how interrelated groups of words form semantic fields. At the sentence level, grammatical, pragmatic and logical aspects of meaning are introduced. The course also explored idiomatic expressions and the ubiquity of metaphor.

Teaching linguistics 4828- History of Linguistics (Saint Mary's University) : [course pack]

The course taught by applying concepts such as sources and influences, groupings and affinities, evolution and revolution to a broad range of contributions to linguistic theory, with particular emphasis on the last 150 years. Focusing on Ferdinand de Saussure, Hermann Paul, Hjelmslev, Guillaume, Jakobson, Martinet, and others.