Applied Linguistics and Grammar - I

Paper Code: 
ENG 324 – C
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To familiarize the students with grammatical structures and their applications.
12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

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

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

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

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Word Classes, Clause elements and types

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

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

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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: 
2017-2018