Unit 1: Educational Studies Unit 2: History, Politics and Economics of Education Unit 3: Learner and Learning Process Unit 4: Teacher Education Unit 5: Curriculum…
Translation Types: literary, technical, simultaneous, machine-aided Concepts: equivalence, untranslatability, shifts Evaluation, loss/gain, idioms, metaphors Lexicography Dictionary-making, meaning description Types: general, learner’s, historical, bilingual, etc. Computational…
Psycholinguistics Brain-language relation, acquisition stages, critical period Perception, comprehension, production Disorders: aphasia, dyslexia, stuttering Language Learning and Teaching First vs second language acquisition Teaching methods,…
Language Typology and Universals Morphological types: agglutinative, isolating, fusional, etc. Universals: absolute/statistical, implicational Genetic, typological, areal classification Approaches to Study Inductive/deductive, word order typology Greenberg’s…
Basic Concepts Linguistic Variability Language Contact Language Development Language Ecology and Endangerment Methodology
Sound Change Neogrammarian laws (Grimm’s, Verner’s, etc.) Sound change types, lexical diffusion, analogy Reconstructing proto-languages, tree/wave models Morphosyntactic and Semantic Change Syncretism, grammaticalization Semantic change:…
Semantics Types of meaning: descriptive, emotive, phatic Sense relations: synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy Ambiguity, entailment, truth conditions Formal semantics: logic, quantifiers, functions Componential analysis, compositionality Pragmatics…
Traditional and Structural Syntax Parts of speech (Indian classification) Syntactic units, grammatical and case relations Construction types, immediate constituent analysis Generative Syntax Universal grammar, structure…
Basic Concepts Morphemes, morphs, allomorphs, lexemes Types of morphemes, affixes vs clitics Grammatical categories: tense, mood, case, etc. Morphological Analysis Morpheme identification, morphophonemics, sandhi Inflection…
Phonetics Articulatory: Airstream, oro-nasal, phonation, articulation processes Classification: vowels, consonants, complex articulation Suprasegmentals: stress, tone, intonation, juncture Acoustic: sound waves, harmonics, spectrograms, voice onset time…