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 and the various subfields with regard to English such as:
i. phonetics (e.g. place and manner of articulation, the IPA, phonetic inventories)
ii. phonology (e.g. phones, phonemes, allophones, minimal pairs)
iii. morphology (e.g. morphemes, roots, stems, derivational and inflectional affixation)
iv. syntax (e.g. word order facts, phrase and sentence structure, lexical categories, constituency)
v. 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)).