Intro. to Theoretical Linguistics

Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics Definitions of linguistics branches of linguistics schools of linguistics.
Animals and human language Communication Properties of human language: Displacement, Arbitrariness Productivity Cultural transmission Duality.
Morphology Morphology Morphemes Free and bound morphemes Lexical and functional morphemes Derivational and inflectional morphemes Morphological description Problems in morphological description Morphs and allomorph
. Word formation Etymology Coinage Borrowing Compounding Blending Clipping Backformation Conversion Acronyms Derivation Prefixes and suffixes Infixes Kamhmu Multiple processes.
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.
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.
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. ]

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