BASLP 1st Semester Notes  » Paper 4: Linguistics and Phonetics

Unit 3: Morphology, syntax, semantics and applied linguistics

• Morphology – concepts of morph, allomorph, morpheme, roots, compound forms – endocentric and exocentric constructions, free and bound morphemes, inflection and derivation, principles and practices of morphemic analysis
• Syntax – different methods of syntactic analysis
• IC analysis, phrase structure, grammar, transformational generative grammar
• Introduction to the major types of transformations
• Sentence types, notions about competence versus performance
• Deep structure versus surface structure
• Acceptability versus grammaticality language versus parole etc.
• A brief introduction to semantics – semantic feature theory, pragmatics
• Processes of word formation, content and function words, form classes, grammatical categories
• Syntax – concepts of phrases and clauses, sentence and its types
• Different methods of syntactic analysis – Immediate constituent analysis, Phrase structure, grammar, transformational generative grammar– deep structure versus surface structure, acceptability versus grammaticality; Introduction to the major types of transformations
• Usefulness of morphemic and syntactic analysis in planning speech and language therapy
• A brief introduction to semantics, semantic relations, semantic feature theory
• A brief introduction to pragmatics and discourse.