LING1112

Introduction to Linguistics (2)

Faculty of Education and Arts School of Humanities and Social Science

10 Units 1000 Level Course

Available in 2014

Callaghan Campus	Semester 2
Ourimbah	Semester 2

Previously offered in 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009

This unit completes students' introduction to the study of language. It takes the languages of Australia and neighbouring areas as a database, and uses this database to illustrate the more advanced fundamental principles of structural analysis in language. The course examines typological variation and diachronic variation. It introduces the study of semantics, pragmatics, conversation, written language, and analysis as based on the fundamental principles of structural analysis.

Objectives

On satisfactory completion of this course, students will be able to

1. Discuss the principles of historical and typological classification.
2. Describe the morphological and prosodic structure of words.
3. Discuss the principles of grammatical relations.
4. Discuss the principles of semantics.
5. Discuss the basic principles of linguistic pragmatics.
6. Discuss the main stages in child language acquisition.

Content

Topics to be covered in this course include:
1. Languages of Australia and neighbouring regions.
2. Historical and typological classification of languages.
3. The morphological and prosodic analysis of words.
4. Grammatical Relations and argument structure.
5. Word-level semantics, clausal semantics, presupposition, entailment.
6. Pragmatics of language in use - speech acts, conversational implicature.
7. Stages in child language acquisition.

Replacing Course(s)

Ling1120 Language Structure and Meaning 10 units

Transition

Not applicable

Industrial Experience

Assumed Knowledge

Ling1111

Modes of Delivery

Internal Mode

Teaching Methods

Lecture
Tutorial

Assessment Items

Essays / Written Assignments	3 take-home assignments (short answer format) - 60%
Examination: Formal	Final examination - 40%.

Contact Hours

Lecture: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Tutorial: for 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term

Timetables