1 | The origins of language: Speculations on the origins of language |
2 | The origins of language: Basic concepts relating to the origins of language |
3 | The development of writing: Pictogram, ideogram, syllabic writing, rebus writing, Summerian contributions, Consonants by Semitic languages, Greeks added vowels, Latin alphabet |
4 | The development of writing: Different alphabets used by different languages |
5 | General properties of languages: Basic concepts |
6 | General properties of languages: arbitrariness, discreteness, productivity
double articulation, cultural transmission |
7 | The sounds of language: Phonetics, the production of individual sounds of English language and their productions |
8 | The sound patterns of language: Phonology. Assimilation, elesion, phoneme, allophone, suprasegmentals. The Phonetic alphabet. |
9 | Words and word-formation processes:
Coinage, blending, compounding, borrowing, clipping, backformation, acronyms, multiple processes |
10 | Midterm Exam |
11 | Morphology:Affixes. Morphological changes. Different examples from different langauges. Morpheme, allomorph |
12 | Phrases and sentences:grammar. Phrase structure Rules |
13 | Phrases and sentences:grammar. Traditional grammar. Ambiguities.
Prescriptive grammar and descriptive grammar |
14 | Syntax: Parts of speech. Immediate constituent analysis, and bracketing |