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

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:  O'Grady, William & John Archibald (2009). Contemporary Linguistic Analysis:                                     An Introduction. Toronto: Pearson.

Further Readings: Fromkin, V., R. Rodman, and N. Hyams (2002), An Introduction to Language.                                     Boston: Thomson.

Akmajian, A., R. A. Demeris, and A. K. Farmer  (1995), Linguistics: An                                           Introduction to Language. Cambridge. MA: The MIT Press.

Napoli, D. J. (1996), Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press.

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

Assignments:

Phonology Problem Set (Apr. 25), Syntax Problem Set (May 30)

Grading Scheme:

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

COURSE SCHEDULE

Course Outline

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: Derivations and Rules
Week 7: Phonology Problem Solving
Week 8: Mid-term Exam
Week 9: Words and Word Structure, Free & Bound Morphemes/Root/Stem/Affix, Allomorphs,
Week 10: Derivation, Compounding, Differences between Inflectional and Derivational Affixes
Week 11: Word Formation Rules, Mophophonemics
Week 12: Categories and Structure, Phrase Structure Rules, Transformational Grammar
Week 13: X-bar theory, Complement Options, Move, Universal Grammar and Parametric                  Variation
Week 14: The Nature of Meaning,  Ambiguity, Thematic Roles, Presupposition, Entailment,               Speech Acts, Conversational Maxims: The Cooperative Principle

Week 15: Final Exam

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel: 82-55-772-1127                           e-mail: kngrhee@hanmail.net / klee@gnu.ac.kr