Main Contents of the Course |
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Scientific topics |
Week |
Readings / References / Notes |
Overviewing theoretical linguistics and the different levels of linguistic analysis: phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics |
1 |
PowerPoint presentation and notes |
Morphology, word-formation processes: coinage, borrowing, compounding, clipping |
2 |
PowerPoint presentation and notes |
Morphology, word-formation processes: blending, backformation, conversion derivation |
3 |
PowerPoint presentation and notes |
Morphology, types of morphemes lexical/functional, derivational/inflectional , morphemes/ morphs / allomorphs |
4 |
PowerPoint presentation and notes |
Syntax, traditional grammar, identifying parts of speech using semantic, syntactic and morphological criteria , agreement relations: the categories number, person and gender in agreement relations |
5 |
PowerPoint presentation and notes |
Traditional grammar: prescriptive vs. descriptive approaches, structural analysis, constituent analysis and labeled brackets |
6 |
PowerPoint presentation and notes |
Generative grammar, deep& surface structures, structural ambiguity, recursion, movement |
7 |
PowerPoint presentation and notes |
Generative grammar, phrase structure rules, the use of symbols in formulating phrase structure rules, lexical rules, |
8 |
PowerPoint presentation and notes |
Tree diagrams for the representation of phrases, ambiguity, and movement |
9 |
PowerPoint presentation and notes |
Semantics, types of meaning: denotative vs. connotative meaning , semantic features |
10 |
PowerPoint presentation and notes |
Semantic roles, NP theta roles: agent, patient, experiencer, instrument, location, source and goal |
11 |
PowerPoint presentation and notes |
Lexical relations: synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy |
12 |
PowerPoint presentation and notes |
Lexical relations: homophones, homonymy, polysemy, prototypes, metonymy and word collocations |
13 |
PowerPoint presentation and notes |
A brief overview to pragmatics, conversation implicature and intercultural pragmatics |
14 |
PowerPoint presentation and notes |