1. Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics Definitions of linguistics – branches of linguistics – schools of linguistics. 2. Animals and human language Communication – Properties of human language: Displacement, Arbitrariness – Productivity – Cultural transmission – Duality. 3. Morphology Morphology – Morphemes – Free and bound morphemes – Lexical and functional morphemes – Derivational and inflectional morphemes – Morphological description – Problems in morphological description – Morphs and allomorph. 4. Word formation Etymology – Coinage – Borrowing – Compounding – Blending – Clipping – Backformation – Conversion – Acronyms – Derivation – Prefixes and suffixes – Infixes – Kamhmu – Multiple processes. 5. Grammar Traditional grammar – The parts of speech – Agreement – Grammatical gender – Traditional analysis – The prescriptive approach – The descriptive approach – Structural analysis -Constituent analysis – Labeled and bracketed sentences. 6. Syntax Deep and surface structure – Structural ambiguity – Recursion – Tree diagrams – Symbols used in syntactic analysis – Phrase structure rules – Lexical rules – Movement rules – Back to recursion – Complement phrases. 7. Semantics Meaning – Semantic features – Semantic roles – Agent and theme – Instrument and experiencer – Location, source and goal – Lexical relations – Synonymy – Antonymy – Hyponymy – Prototypes – Homophones and homonyms – Polysemy – Word play – Metonymy – Collocation. ]