Introduction to Linguistics I & II

The course aims to introduce students to the central components of linguistics, and equip them with the basic knowledge to pursue further studies in linguistics.

1. Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics

2. Phonetics and Phonology (1): Consonants and vowels, suprasegmentals

3. Phonetics and Phonology (2): The syllable, phonological rules

4. Morphology (1): Morphemes

5. Morphology (2): Word formation

6. Grammar: (1): Parts of speech

7. Grammar: (2): Phrases, clauses, sentences

8. Syntax (1): Phrase structure grammar

9. Syntax (2): Sentence structure

10. Semantics (1): Signs and meaning

11. Semantics (2): Semantic roles

12. Pragmatics (1): Context, deixis

13. Pragmatics (2): Speech acts

The course aims to introduce students to the central components of linguistics, and equip them with the basic knowledge to pursue further studies in linguistics.

1. Introduction to linguistics

2. Language Processing and the brain (1): Localisation of language in the brain

3. Language Processing and the brain (2): Language and brain development

4. Psycholinguistics (1): Language production

5. Psycholinguistics (2): Language comprehension

6. Language acquisition (1): First language acquisition

7. Language acquisition (2): Second language acquisition

8. Sociolinguistics (1): Speech community, diglossia, multilingualism

9. Sociolinguistics (2): Social network, social class, age, gender

10. Stylistics (1): Register

11. Stylistics (2): Literary stylistics

12. Language change (1): Linguistics changes

13. Language change (2): Genetic classification of languages

1. write an essay on a topic of personal interest;

2. show their understanding of the topics introduced in the class in 2 written tests; and

3. speak about their language knowledge in the form of class discussions.