SYLLABUS (2nd SEMESTER)

Paper 4/Subject Name: Introduction to English Linguistics Subject Code: ENG102C204

L-T-P-C – 4-0-0-4 Credit Units: 4 Scheme of Evaluation: (T)

Course Objective:
The objective of the course is to enable students to learn the basic concepts and essential terminology needed for
getting a good grasp of the subject and to develop the ability to solve linguistic problems.

Prerequisites: The students should have knowledge about the origin of human knowledge and how sounds originated.

Detailed Syllabus:

Modules Topics (if applicable) & Course Contents Periods

Basics of language and Regional variations
Characteristics of human language, Language in Society (Langue and parole, Pidgins & creoles,
I Accent, Styles, Dialects, Idiolects, Register, Styles, Standard language, Prestige), Syntagmatic & 10
Paradigmatic, Inductive and Deductive, Social Markers, Branches of linguistics.

Phonetics
Phonetics: articulatory, Anatomy and physiology and speech production; air stream process;
articulation process; oral-nasal process; phonation process, Voiced and Voiceless sounds,
consonants: manner of articulation, vowels, strong and weak vowels, diphthongs, clusters,
II 10
syllables
Phonetic Transcription
Speech and writing; phonetic transcription: IPA, broad and narrow transcription;
transliteration.
Morphology
Simple and complex words; root, stem, word; free and bound morphemes; prefixes, suffixes and
infixes, zero morpheme; Lexical and functional morphemes, derivational morphemes, inflectional
III morphemes, morphological description, morphs and allomorphs, reference to other languages, 10
morphophonemics and processes.
Word Formation - Neologisms, Etymology, borrowing, compounding, clipping, conversion,
coinage, derivation, multiple processes, concatenation; cliticization; sandhi.
Elementary Phonology
Phonetics and phonology; phonetic variability; phoneme, phone and allophones; phonological
IV processes (assimilation, consonant deletion, vowel deletion, coalescence of vowels & consonant, 10
class change), neutralization and free variation; morphonemic alternations, pattern congruity
TOTAL 40
Texts:

 Balasubramaniam, T. (1993). A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students, Macmillan: Madras.
 The Study of Language, George Yule. 5th Ed., Cambridge University Press
 Krishnawamy, N. & Verma, S.K. (2016). Modern Linguistic. Oxford University Press: New Delhi
 Ashby, Michael and John Maidment 2005. Introducing Phonetics Science. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
 Lyons, J. (2011). Language and Linguistics: An Introduction, CUP: Cambridge.

References:
 Ladefoged, P. and I. Maddieson. 1996. The Sounds of the World‘s Language. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
 Laver, J. 1994. Principles of Phonetics Cambridge: University Press.
 Roach, P. 2001 Phonetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 Rocca, lggy and Wyn Johnson. 1999. A course in phonology. Oxford: Blackwell publishers.
 Odden, David. 2005. Introducing Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 Spencer, A. 1991. Morphological Theory. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Course Outcome: On completion of this course students will be expected to demonstrate understanding of variations
in language and analyze language from phonetic, phonological and morphological perspectives.

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 SYLLABUS (5th SEMESTER)

Paper-DSE 5.2/Subject Name: Language and Linguistics I Subject Code: ENG102D502

L-T-P-C – 5-1-0-6 Credit Units: 6 Scheme of Evaluation: (T)

Course Objective:

The objective of the course is to introduce students to the study of language, along with some of the theoretical
concepts and empirical findings of branches of applied linguistics.

Prerequisites: Students should have a rough idea of linguistics.

Detailed Syllabus:

Modules Topics & Course Contents Periods

Language History and Change
Family tree, Indo-European, old English, middle English, cognates, comparative reconstruction,
I. sound reconstruction, word reconstruction, sound changes(metathesis, epenthesis, prosthesis), 10
syntactic change (loss of inflection), Semantic change (broadening of meaning, narrowing of
meaning), diachronic and synchronic variation, The Tibeto-Burman Family,
Semantics
Meaning, use and mention, type and token; form-lexemes-expression; symbol, icon and index;
II. sense and reference; denotation and connotation; Structural semantics: sense relations (hyponymy, 10
lexical gaps, part-whole relations, componential analysis), Lexical relations (synonymy,
antonymy, hyponymy, prototypes, homophones & homonyms, polysemy, metonymy)
Discourse Analysis
Discourse, interpreting discourse, Cohesion, Coherence, Speech events, Conversation analysis
III. (turn taking), Co-operative principle (hedges, implicatures), Background knowledge (schemas and 10
scripts)
Language acquisition and development 10

Stages of language acquisition; child language vs. language acquisition, first language acquisition
and multilingualism; the linguistic environment; motherese; constrains; processes and
mechanisms.
IV Early language acquisition (prelinguistic development; infant vocalizations; early phonology,
single word utterances and combinations – baby talk, early grammar)

Later language acquisition – phonological and semantic awareness; later grammar; acquisition of
morphology; the emergence of linguistic awareness; discourse process.
TOTAL 40

Texts:
 Yule, G. (2014). The Study of Language, 5th Edition. London: Cambridge University Press.
 Verma & Krishnaswamy (2016). New Delhi: Modern Linguistics: An Introduction. Oxford University Press.
 Lyons, J. (1977). Semantics. Cambridge University Press.

References:

 Peccei, J. S. (2006). Child Language. London & New York: Routledge.

 Bloom, P. (2000). How Children Learn the Meaning of Words, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
 Clark, E.V. (1993). The Lexicon in Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 Evans, V. and Green, M. (2006). Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction.
 Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
 Lyons, J. (1981). Language and Linguistics: An Introduction. London: Cambridge University Press.


Course Outcome: On completion of this course students will be expected to grasp the complexity of language as a
communication system shaped by cognitive, biological, cultural, and social factors.

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 SYLLABUS (6th SEMESTER)

Paper DSE 6.2/Subject Name: Language and Linguistics II Subject Code: ENG102D602

L-T-P-C – 5-1-0-6 Credit Units: 6 Scheme of Evaluation: (T)

Course Objective:
The objective of the course is to introduce students to a comprehensive study of the developments in the study of
language and its analysis.

Prerequisites: The students should be familiar with the basics of linguistics.

Detailed Syllabus:

Modules Topics & Course Contents Periods

Neurolinguistics – Brain Language
Approaches to neurolinguistics, Aphasia and its classification; Dyslexia and its classification;
I. Cerebral dominance, lateralization and handedness; overview of contemporary neurolinguistics; 10
Implications for normal language processing, Split-brain research, contributions of the Right
Hemisphere, teaching language to non-human primates, The critical period
Introductory Transformational Generative Syntax
Syntactic rules, IC analysis, Tree Diagram, Phrase structure framework, Movement rules,
II. Syntactic category, Lexical Category, Ambiguity (Lexical ambiguity, structural ambiguity), 10
Certain types of dependencies, Transformation (WH movement, NP Movement)

First language acquisition - Acquisition schedule (cooing, babbling, one-word stage, two-
word stage, telegraphic speech), The acquisition process (learning through imitation, learning
III. 10
through correction), Developing morphology, developing syntax, developing semantics

Second language acquisition 10

Second language learning (acquisition and learning, acquisition barriers, the age factor,
IV affective factors), Focus on teaching method ( the grammar translation method, the audiolingual
method, communicative approaches)

TOTAL 40
Texts:

 Yule, G. (2014). The Study of Language, 5th Edition. London: Cambridge University Press.
 Dabrowska, Ewa. 2004. Language, Mind and Brain. Edinburgh: Edinburg University Press.
 Gordzinsky, Y. 1990. Theoretical Perspective on Language Deficits. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

References:

 Ingram, John C.L. 2007. Neurolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 Nicolson, Roderick I. and Angela J. Fawcett 2008. Dyslexia, Learners and the Brain.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press,
 Northoff, Georg 2004. Philosophy of the Brain: The Brain Problem. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John
Benjamins Publication Co.
 Peng, Fred C.C. 2005. Language in the Brain-- Critical Assessments. New York:
Continuum, London.
 Lyons, J. (1981). Language and Linguistics: An Introduction.1981. London: Cambridge University Press.
 Krishnaswamy, N, & Verma, S.K. (2016). Modern Linguistics: An Introduction. 28th Impression. London:
Oxford University Press.
 Yule, G. (2014). The Study of Language. 5th Edition.2014. London: Cambridge University Press.
Ahlsen, Elisabeth 2006. Introduction to Neurolinguistics. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub.
Co.

Course Outcome: On completion of this course students will be expected to understand the major concepts of the
relation between the brain and language acquisition and the deep structure and surface structure of language analysis.

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