Course Outline

Unit 1

Introduction to Linguistics studies – Nature of Languages –Animal communication and human language- properties of language-development of linguistics-Important schoolsLangue and Parole – Competence and Performance- Substance and Form – Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic-Diachronic and Synchronic relations.

Unit 2

Phonology and Phonetics-English sounds, stress and rhythm – Morphology – Morpheme, allomorphs – kinds of morphemes – kinds of allomorphs-Morpho-phonemics-morphological processes.

Unit 3

Semantics – Definition-relationship of similarity, opposition and inclusion: Synonymy, opposites, hyponymy, homonymy, polysemy-Lexical Ambiguity; Collocation and field-Pragmatics-Content and Meaning-Discourse Analysis Speech Act Theory.

Unit 4

Modern Grammar and Syntax – Prescriptive vs Descriptive approaches- Grammaticality and Acceptability- Word Classes, Form Class, Function Class-Phrases and ClausesCoordination and Subordination-Noun, Adverb and Relative Clauses-Basic sentence patterns-Types of sentences-Elements of a sentence – IC Analysis -Structural vs. Generative Grammar – Transformational Generative Grammar –Deep Structure – Surface Structure – PS Rules – Adequacy, Meaning,Lexicon-Tree diagram-Aspect Model of ChomskyTransformations-Singular/Double-based Tagmemics-Trace Theory-Case-Government and Binding.

Unit 5

Applications of Linguistics – Pedagogy – Sociolinguistics – Psycholinguistics – Forensic linguistics – Clinical Linguistics.

To introduce the students to the nature of Language systems; to introduce them to the nature of English language.

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8. Lyons. An Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. 1968. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. Print.
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