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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