Feb 01, 2026  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

ENGL 20600 - Introduction To The Study Of Grammar



Presents the basic principles of structural and transformational grammar: phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics with comparative reference to traditional grammar. 

Preparation for Course
P: ENGL 13100 (or Equivalent).

Cr. 3.
Notes
Required for advanced elementary education majors.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Demonstrate a general understanding of the field of linguistics.
2. Demonstrate an understanding phonetics (e.g. place and manner of articulation, the IPA, phonetic inventories).
3. Demonstrate an understanding of phonology (e.g. phones, phonemes, allophones, minimal pairs).
3. Demonstrate an understanding of morphology (e.g. morphemes, roots, stems, derivational and inflectional affixation).
5. Demonstrate an understanding of syntax (e.g. word order facts, phrase and sentence structure, lexical categories, constituency).
6. Demonstrate an understanding of pragmatics (e.g. Gricean Maxims, speech acts, register, context and meaning, rules of conversation,); language variation and change (e.g. sound change, morphological change, syntactic change, semantic change, dialects (regional and social)).