Topics
This page is a table of contents for the entire course, providing a list of all topics that we dealt with during the winter semester. For sessions 3 to 11 you’ll find a summary, which aims to provide roughly the same kind of breadth as a chapter from a text book, a presentation, which is much briefer and focuses only on the essentials, and a PDF version of the presentation. Note that you can also get a PDF version of any summary by scrolling to the bottom of the page and typing your email into the form field next to ‘Send post as PDF to’.
PART ONE
Click here to download all 13 summaries from the first part of the course in a single PDF file.
Defining language
Session 1: Thirteen questions about language
summary
Session 2: What is language?
summary
Phonetics/Phonology
Session 3: The sounds of English
summary, presentation, pdf
Session 4: Sound and meaning
summary, presentation, pdf
Session 5: Applications of phonetics and phonology
summary, presentation, pdf
Morphology
Session 6: Types of morphemes
summary, presentation, pdf
Session 7: Word formation
summary, presentation, pdf
Syntax
Session 8: Grammatical categories and relations
summary, presentation, pdf
Session 9: Phrases, clauses, sentences
summary, presentation, pdf
Semantics
Session 10: Essentials of semantics
summary, presentation, pdf
Session 11: Lexical semantics
summary, presentation, pdf
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Thank you very much for your work. I’ve been searching for free articles and lectures on English linguistics because I have to write an assignment about it and I found your blog. It’s so helpful and interesting. I’m a student of a post-graduated course on TESOL in Vietnam.
Hello Prof. Puschmann,
My name is Andrew Mylko; I’m not a student of yours, but rather, a student in a community college in Eugene, Oregon, USA. Thank you very much for creating this website, it has helped me a lot. I hope you don’t mind that I ask you about your material.
In Session 1, Question #7 says, “…it was widely believe that language, perception and culture are extremely closely related, almost to the point of being identical…Today most linguists believe this to be false”
Will you please recommend how I can learn more about the old ideas regarding language’s relation to thought, and why current thinking believes the old thinking is false? Also, how does language influence thought?
Thanks again, and have a great day!
Sincerely,
Andrew
Hello Prof. Puschmann,
My name is Burhan Teoman. I’m not a student of your like Andrew, but rather a English Language and Literature student in Erzurum,Turkey. I would like to thank you for creating this website too.
I’ll have linguistics exam 3 hours later and I’ve just found this valuable source. Our teachers don’t share their lecture notes here so it takes hours to create a suitable study note to work on.
Thanks again and again. I’m sure this notes will make great diffirence in my scores.
Sincerely,
Burhan
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