Applied Linguistics and Grammar - I

Paper Code: 
ENG 324 - C
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
12.00
Language and Communication : Human and non-human communication; verbal and non-verbal communication 
 
12.00
Language Change and Variation : Language families; language change; language, mind and society
 
12.00

Word Classes, Clause elements and types

12.00
Noun Phrase, Verb Phrase, Adjectival Phrases, Prepositional Phrases and Adverbial Phrases 
 
12.00
The Complex and Compound Sentence, The Verb and its Complementation
 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Quirk and Greenbaum : A University Grammar of English (O. Longman , 1973)
  2. David Crystal : Linguistics ( Penguin)
  3. Geoffery Leech : English Grammar for Today
  4. E.Palmer : Grammar (ELBS, 1971)
  5. A. Akmajian , R.A. Demers and R.M. Harnish : Linguistics : An Introduction to Language and Communication , 2nd ed. ( Prentice Hall,1991)
  6. Richards and Rodgers : Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (CWP)
  7. J.F. Wallwork : Language and Linguistics (Heinemann)
  8. S. Pinker: The Language Instinct (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994)
  9. J. Aichison: Linguistics (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995)