Applied Linguistics and Grammar - I

Paper Code: 
ENG 324 - C
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04

Unit I

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

Unit II

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

Unit III

Word Classes, Clause elements and types

Unit IV

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

Unit V

The Complex and Compound Sentence, The Verb and its Complementation

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Quirk and Greenbaum : A University Grammar of English (O. Longman , 1973)
  • David Crystal : Linguistics ( Penguin)
  • Geoffery Leech : English Grammar for Today
  • E.Palmer : Grammar (ELBS, 1971)
  • A. Akmajian , R.A. Demers and R.M. Harnish : Linguistics : An Introduction to Language and Communication , 2nd ed. ( Prentice Hall,1991)
  • Richards and Rodgers : Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (CWP)
  • J.F. Wallwork : Language and Linguistics (Heinemann)
  • S. Pinker: The Language Instinct (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994)
  • J. Aichison: Linguistics (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995)

 

Academic Year: 
2014-2015