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Modern English Language and Phonetics [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 121
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Objective: 

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Familiarize themselves with modern English grammatical structures and their application
    • Get introduced to the basic concepts of phonetics, word-stress and formations
    • Have their compositional skills strengthened
13.00

Clauses

(from A University Grammar of English, pp.166-75 )

 
 

 

13.00

Co-ordination and Subordination - Only Finite Clauses

(from A University Grammar of English, pp. 309-12 & 322-29)

 

13.00

Concepts & Notions (viz. request, order, question, condition, purpose, suggestion, wish, hope, intention, obligation, contrast, concession, permission) (from Guide to Patterns & Usage)    

 

9.00

Advanced Comprehension

12.00

Aspects of Pronunciation: Phonemic Symbols and Transcription of Words: Word Stress & Intonation and Word Formation

 

Source Books: 

Adams, Valerie. An Introduction to Modern English Word Formation.U of Michigan.2008.

Quirk, Randolph and Sidney Greenbaum. A University Grammar of English. Pearson, 1973.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

 

Bansal, R.K. An Outline of General Phonetics. OUP, 1971.  
 
Balasubramanian, T. A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students. Macmillan Publishers India Ltd., 1981.
 
Hornby, A.S.A Guide to Patterns and Usage. OUP, 1954.
 
O’Connor, Joseph Desmond. Phonetics. United Kingdom: Penguin Books, 1991.
 
Syal, Pushpinder and D.V. Jindal .An Introduction to Linguistic, Language , Grammar and Semantics.Prentice Hall of India. 1999.
Academic Year: 
2019-2020 [2]

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