EFL296 FOUNDATIONS IN LINGUISTICS II
Course Code: |
3660296 |
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
2(2-0) |
ECTS Credit: |
3.0 |
Department: |
Teaching English As A Foreign Language |
Language of Instruction: |
English |
Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
Course Coordinator: |
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Offered Semester: |
Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
Introduction to sub-disciplines of Linguistics; basic concepts in morphology (the lexicon, free and bound morphemes, inflection vs. derivation, morphological typology of languages, morphological analysis, hierarchical structure of words, morphology-phonology interface); basic concepts in syntax (strucural relations: dominance, motherhood, daughterhood, sisterhood; phrase structure: head, complement, adjunct; x-bar schema; complements vs. adjuncts; syntactic typology of languages); basic concepts in sentential semantics (compositionality, truth conditions, paraphrase, entailment, contradiction, presupposition).