Course Objectives
The course provides an introduction to human language, its structure, core properties and the nature of Linguistic theory. Major topics include (but are not limited to):
- Facets of human language
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Pragmatics
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Morphology
- Language change
- Sociolinguistics
Course materials (Adobe Reader required. A link to downloadable free version is here)
- Syllabus
- Readings
- Raskin, Victor and Irwin Weiser. Language and Writing: Applications of Linguistics to Rhetoric and Composition. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation. 1987
- Chapter 4: Language and Linguistics
- Chapter 5: Phonetics and Phonology
- Chapter 6: Morphology
- Chapter 7: Syntax
- Chapter 8: Semantics
- Chapter 9: Language Variation
- Raskin, Victor 1983 Concise History of Linguistic Semantics. Third Edition. Purdue University (pdf version)
- Raskin, Victor and Irwin Weiser. Language and Writing: Applications of Linguistics to Rhetoric and Composition. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation. 1987
- Linguistic problems