Gain an overview of the 'core' areas of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax (grammar), semantics/ pragmatics and historical linguistics. In essence, this unit provides you with a foundation for later work in applied areas of the discipline. It approaches language as a medium of communication and focuses on the structures and functions that it manifests and on the analysis of linguistic data. You will be introduced to techniques for different levels of language analysis; key questions and theoretical and descriptive frameworks adopted in the analysis of language; and some of the applications of these theoretical tools. -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Howard Manns
