All of us use language everyday, but do we really understand how language and communication works?
This is the course where we start out our journey as a linguist, exploring topics ranging from morphology and phonology to how children learn languages!
Professor : Aditi Mukherjee (Visiting Professor)
Ph.D (Delhi University, New Delhi)
Semester - 1
Will be updated soon!
Title : An Introduction to Language
Author(s) : Victoria Fromkin; Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Title : Aitchison's Linguistics
Author(s) : Jean Aitchison
Publisher : McGraw Hill
Title : Language Universals and Linguistic Typology
Author(s) : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : The University of Chicago Press
What is language? Difference between human language and Animal languages
Natural language, Formal language and Artificial language, characteristic features of human language, what we know about language.
Study of Human language - the field of Linguistics
Looking at language from synchronic and diachronic points of view
From structural perspective
Syntagmatic and paradigmatic aspects of language structure, Levels of structural analysis
Phonetics: Place and manner of articulation of speech sounds, IPA.
Phonology: Phone, phoneme, allophone; Distinctive features; Phonological rules; Syllable.
Morphology: Units of word's internal structure, word formation processes, inflectional and derivational morphology, compound words and how they are formed.
Syntax: Types of sentences, Sentence structures, Phrase structure grammar.
From evolution perspective: Historical Linguistics
From usage perspective: Socio linguistics
From Psychological perspective: Mechanisms of language acquisition, knowing more than one language
Indian Grammatical Tradition:
A communication model for language study. Paninian grammatical model.
Writing Systems:
Representing language through graphic characters.