EKIP2020 Science of Language (5 op)

This course is an introductory course to analyzing English using syntactic concepts and terminology as well as about the study of language – or linguistics, which gives you an overview of some central areas, concepts, methods and questions of the scientific study of language.

After this course, students will be able to:

• to give an overview of the aims, methods and practices of linguistics, the scientific study of language

• recognise the central levels of linguistic description (such as phonology, morphology, lexis, semantics, and pragmatics) and the basic terminology related to them

• identify various research areas (e.g. general and applied linguistics) and research orientations (e.g. language and society) in linguistics

• apply basic linguistic terms and analysis into English and describe the basics of English as a system

• describe the structure of language using basic grammatical terminology
  

• distinguish the English basic clause types from each other
  

• analyze basic written and spoken English clauses and sentences, and
  

• name and distinguish different phrases and their parts, such as noun phrases and verb phrases
  

A list of literature will be provided at the beginning of the course. Study materials will be provided in Moodle.