COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Objectives

This course is designed to provide students with overall knowledge of English phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics & pragmatics and so on.

MAIN TEXTBOOK and FURTHER READINGS

Main Textbook: Fromkin, Victoria (2002), An Introduction to Language

Further Readings: O'Grady, William (1991), Contemporary Linguistics

Akmajian, Adrian (1995), Linguistics: An Introduction to Language

Napoli, Donna Jo (1996), Linguistics

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

Assignments
- Phnology Problem Set (Apr. 30), Syntax Problem Set (May 28)

Grading Scheme
- Attendance(10%), Mid-term Exam(30%), Final Exam(40%), Assignments(20%)

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week 1: Introduction: What is English Linguistics?
Week 2: English Consonants, Manners of Articulation, Places of Articulation
Week 3: Vowels & English Dipthongs
Week 4: Phonemes/Allophones; Minimal Pairs, Complementrary Distribution and Free Variation
Week 5: Distinctive Features: Underlying Representation vs. Surface Representation.
Week 6: English Phonological Rules: Assimilation, Palatalization, Dissimilation
Week 7: English Phnological Rules: Epenthesis, Compensatory Lengthening, Metathesis
Week 8: Mid-term Exam
Week 9: Word Formation Rules
Week 10: Free Morphemes/Bound Morphemes/Root/Stem/Affix, Allomorphs
Week 11: Differences between Inflectional Affixes and Derivational Affixes
Week 12: Phrase Structure Rules, Transformational Grammar, X-bar theory
Week 13: Passivization, Imperative, Reflexivization, Wh-Movement, Head Movement
Week 14: Performative Verbs, Presupposition, Entailment, Speech Acts, The Cooperative Principle

Week 15: Final Exam

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel: 82-55-751-5886

e-mail: kngrhee@hanmail.net / klee@gnu.ac.kr

Course Name	Introduction to English Linguistics
Credits	3
Professor(s)	Name	Kwangho Lee
	Department	Dept. of English Language and Literature