INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE

 

 

The course book is:

Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams. 2003. Introduction to Language, 7th Edition. Boston: Thomson Heinle.

Introductory Notes (in English Language), Click HERE.

 

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The topics covered:

1. Chapter 1 What is Language?

• Linguistic Knowledge

• Linguistic Competence vs. Linguistic Performance

• Descriptive Grammar vs. Prescriptive Grammar

• Language Universals

PowerPoint Presentation: File#1 

 

2. Chapter 3 Morphology: The Word of Language

• Content words vs. Function Words

• Bound and Free Morphemes

• Inflections vs. Derivations

• Word Coinage: Compounds, Acronyms, Back-formations, Abbreviations, Eponyms, and Blends.

PowerPoint Presentation: File#2, File#3 

 

3. Chapter 4 The Sentence Patterns of Language

• Grammatical or Ungrammatical?

• Syntactic Categories

• Heads and Complements

• Phrase Structure Rules

• Sentence Relatedness

PowerPoint Presentation: File#4, File#5 

 

4. Chapter 5 The Meanings of Language

• Semantic Properties

• Semantic Relations

• Sentential Meaning

• Metaphors & Idioms

• Pragmatics

PowerPoint Presentation: File#6, File#7, File#8  

Online Exercises

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