Table of Contents
What is Linguistics?
Linguists and Polyglot/bilinguals?
Sub-fields of Linguistics: morphology
Sub-fields of Linguistics: phonetics
Sub-fields of Linguistics: phonology
Sub-fields of Linguistics: syntax "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
Sub-fields of Linguistics: semantics
Sub-fields of Linguistics: sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Applied linguistics
Schools of Linguistics: traditional
Schools of Linguistics: structural
Schools of Linguistics: generative
What do we know when we know a word? What is in a word?
What is a morpheme?
Classification of morphemes
Word-Formation Processes/Neologisms
Word-Formation Processes/Neologisms
Word-Formation Processes/Neologisms
Problems of morphological analysis
Languages with different morphology
Phonetics: the study of sounds
Phonetics: physiology of sounds
Phonetics: the presentation of speech sounds
Place and manner of articulation and consonants
vowels
Phonetics and phonemics
Morpho-phonemics
Acoustic phonetics
Phonology: the study of phonological rules
Phonology: Distinctive Features
Phonology: distinctive features and phonological rules
Phonology: syllable
Phonology: foot
Phonology: tone
Different Approaches to Syntax?
Generative Grammar
Competence and performance
Structure and Grammar Rules
An informal theory
Constituent structure and tree diagram
Tests of how the tree diagram works
Grammatical relations
Discontinuous Dependencies and Transformational Rules
More formal account
Special Topics: unsolved mysteries?
Semantics: Varieties of meaning?
What is meaning?
More theories on meaning
Scope of of a semantic theory
Goals of a semantic theory
Special Topics
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Author: Jianhua Bai (This review
summary is based on the content we cover until the midterm exam.)
Email: bai@kenyon.edu
Home Page: http://www2.kenyon.edu/people/bai/linguistics.html
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