Applied Linguistics and Grammar - I

Paper Code: 
ENG 324 – C
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Familiarize themselves with the nuances of applied linguistics , advanced grammatical structures and their application
    • Develop linguistic competence in them
    • Polish their writing skills through the correct use of grammatical structures
12.00
Unit I: 

Language and Communication : Human and non-human communication; verbal and non-verbal  communication

12.00
Unit II: 

Language Change and Variation : Language families; language change; language, mind and society

12.00
Unit III: 

Word Classes, Clause elements and types

12.00
Unit IV: 

Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjectival Phrases, Prepositional Phrases and Adverbial Phrases

12.00
Unit V: 

The Complex and Compound Sentence, The Verb and its Complementation

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Aichison, Jean. Linguistics. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.Print.
  • Akmajian, Adrai, R.A. Demers, and R.M. Harnish .Linguistics : An Introduction to Language and Communication. 2nd ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1991. Print.
  • Coulthard, Malcolm. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 1996. Print.
  • Harold, Parmer, F.G. Blandford, and Roger Kingdon. Grammar for English Words. 6th. ed. London: W. Heffer & Sons, 1970. Print.
  • Leech, Geoffery. English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction. London: Macmillan, 1990. Print.
  • Littlewood, William. Communicative Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Print.
  • Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994. Print.
  • Randolph,Quirk, and Sydney Greenbaum. A University Grammar of English. New York: Orient Longman, 1973. Print.
  • Richards, Jack C. and Theodore Rodgers. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Print.
Academic Year: 
2019-2020