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Unit-1: Language and Linguistics

Nature of Language: Language in spoken and written modes, language as

written text—philological and literary notions i.e., norm, purity

and their preservation; language as a cultural heritage—codification

and transmission of cultural knowledge and behavior; language as a

marker of social identity; language as an object i.e., notion of

autonomy, structure and its units and components; design Features

of language; writing system—units of writing—sound (alphabetic),

or syllable (syllabic) and morpheme/word (logographic), sign

language; existence of language faculty; linguistic competence, ideal

speaker-hearer.

Approaches to the Study of Language: Ancient approaches to the

study of language: Indian and Greco-Roman, semiotic approach—

interpretation of sign; language as a system of social behaviour—use

of language in family, community and country; language as a

system of communication—communicative functions—

emotive, conative, referential, poetic, metalinguistic and phatic;

language as a cognitive system; relation with culture and thought

(Linguistic Relativity); Saussurean dichotomies: signifier and

signified, langue and parole, synchronic and diachronic, syntagmatic

and paradigmatic.

Language Analysis: Levels and their hierarchy—

phonetic/phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic/pragmatic;

their interrelations; linguistic units and their distribution at different levels;

notions of contrast and complementation; -emic and -etic categorisation; notion of

rule at different levels; description vs. explanation of grammatical facts.

Linguistics and other Fields: Relevance of Linguistics to other fields of

enquiry—Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology, Neurology, Speech Sciences,

Geography, Psychology, Education, Computer Science and Literature.

Unit 2. Phonetics and Phonology

Phonetics

Phonetics as a study of speech sounds: articulatory, auditory, and

acoustic phonetics.

Articulatory Phonetics: Processes of speech production: airstream

process, oro-nasal process, phonation process, and articulatory process;

classification of speech sounds: vowels and consonants, cardinal vowels (primary

and secondary); complex articulation: secondary articulation, coarticulation;

syllable; suprasegmentals—length, stress, tone, intonation and juncture;

phonetic transcription: International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

Acoustic Phonetics: Sound waves— simple and complex, periodic and

aperiodic; harmonics; frequency and fundamental frequency, amplitude,

duration; resonance, filters, spectrum, spectrogram; formants, transition,

burst; voice onset time; aspiration; noise spectra; cues for speech sounds: vowel

(monophthong and diphthong), semivowel, stop, fricative, nasal, lateral, glide,

places of articulation of consonants.

Phonology

Descriptive Phonology: Phonetics vs. phonology; concept of phoneme, phone and

allophone; principles of phonemic analysis— phonetic similarity, contrastive

distribution, complementary distribution, free variation, pattern congruity;

notions of biuniqueness, neutralization and archiphoneme.

Generative Phonology: Linear and non-linear approaches: levels of phonological

representation; phonological rules; distinctive features (major class, manner,

place, etc.); abstractness controversy; rule ordering and types of rule ordering,

markedness; principles of lexical phonology; principles of optimality theory.

Unit 3. Morphology

Basic Concepts: Scope and nature of morphology; concepts of morpheme,

morph, allomorph, zero allomorph, conditions on allomorphs; lexeme and word;

Types of morphemes—free and bound; root, stem, base, suffix, infix, prefix,

portmanteau morpheme, suppletive, replacive; affixes vs. clitics; grammatical

categories – tense, aspect, mood, person, gender, number, case; case markers and

case relations; pre- and post-positions; models of morphological description: item

and arrangement, item and process, word and paradigm;

Morphological Analysis: Identification of morphemes; morphological

alternation; morphophonemic processes; internal and external sandhi; inflection

vs. derivation; conjugation and declension.

Word-Formation Processes: Derivation (primary vs. secondary derivation,

nominalization, verbalization, etc.), compounding (types of compounds:

endocentric, exocentric, etc.), reduplication, back-formation, conversion,

clipping, blending, acronyms, folk etymology, creativity and productivity,

blocking, bracketing paradoxes, constraints on affix ordering.

Morpho-syntax: Nominalization and lexicalist hypothesis; grammatical

function changing rules: causatives, passives.

Unit 4. Syntax

Traditional and Structural Syntax: parts of speech: Indian classification (naama,

aakhyaata, upasarga, nipaata); basic syntactic units and their types: word,

phrase, clause, sentence, karaka relations; grammatical relations and case

relations; construction types (exocentric, endocentric, etc.), immediate

constituent analysis.

Generative Syntax: Parameters and universal grammar, null subject

parameter, innateness hypothesis, meaning of the term ‘generative’,

transformational generative grammar, structure and structure-

dependence, diagnostics for structure; complements and adjuncts,

principles and parameters theory, X-bar theory, theta theory, binding

theory; pro-drop, NP-movement, wh-movement, head movement,

adjunction and substitution, constraints on movement, subjacency,

government and proper government, small clauses, topicalization;

unergatives and unaccusatives, VP-internal subject hypothesis; split

VP and VP-shell hypothesis, cross-over phenomena; checking theory

of case, copy theory of movement, inclusiveness principle.

Some Key Concepts in the Minimalist Programme: Spell-out, greed,

procrastination, last resort, AGR-based case theory, multiple-spec

hypothesis, strong and weak features; interpretable and non-

interpretable features.

Transformational Components: The copy theory of movement, its

properties, checking devices and features of convergence.

Unit 5. Semantics and Pragmatics

Semantics: Types of meaning; descriptive, emotive and phatic; sense and

reference, connotation and denotation, sense relations (homonymy, hyponymy,

antonymy, synonymy, etc.); types of opposition (taxonomic, polar, etc.);

ambiguity, sentence meaning and truth conditions, contradictions, entailment;

‘abhidha’, ‘laksana’, ‘vyanjana’; Notions of membership, union, intersection,

cardinality; mapping and functions; propositions, truth values, sentential

connectives; arguments, predicates, quantifiers, variables; componential

analysis; definiteness, mood and modality, specific vs. generic; definite and

indefinite; compositionality and its limitations.

Pragmatics: Language use in context; communication: message model

and inferential model of communication, sentence meaning and utterance

meaning; speech acts; deixis; presupposition and implicature: Gricean

maxims; information structure; indexicals, politeness, power and solidarity,

discourse analysis.

Unit 6. Historical Linguistics

Sound Change: Neogrammarian laws of phonetic change: Grimm’s, Verner’s,

Grassmann’s Laws; genesis and spread of sound change; split and merger;

conditioned vs. unconditioned change; types of changes—phonetic vs.

phonemic changes; assimilation and dissimilation, coalescence, metathesis,

deletion, epenthesis; lexical diffusion of sound change; analogy and its

relationship to sound change; reconstructing the proto-stages of languages; tree

and wave models; relative chronology of different changes. Sociolinguistic

approach to language change: social motivation of language change; study of

sound change in progress.

Morphosyntactic and Semantic Change: Phonological change leading to

changes in morphology and syntax; syncretism, grammaticalisation and

lexicalisation; principles of recovering grammatical categories and

contrasts; semantic change and processes of semantic change—extension,

narrowing, figurative speech.

Linguistic Reconstruction: External vs. internal reconstruction: comparative

method, collection of cognates, establishing phonological correspondences;

reconstruction of the phonemes of the proto-language based on contrast and

complementation; morphophonemic alternations as the source for

reconstruction; recovering historical contrasts by comparing, alternating and

non-alternating paradigms; accounting for exceptions to sound change—

analogy, borrowing, onomatopoeia, the interplay of analogy and sound change;

lexicostatistics.

Language Contact and Dialect Geography: Linguistic borrowing, lexical and

structural; motivations, loan translation, loan blend, calque, assimilated and

unassimilated loans: tadbhava and tatsama; different types of borrowing–

cultural, intimate and dialect; classification of loanwords; impact of

borrowing on language; pidgins and creoles; bilingualism as the source for

borrowing; dialect geography: dialect atlas; isogloss; focal area, transition area

and relic area.

Unit 7. Sociolinguistics

Basic Concepts: Sociolinguistics and sociology of language; micro-and macro

approaches to language in society; linguistic repertoire: language, dialect,

sociolect, idiolect; diglossia, taboo, slang; elaborated and restricted codes; speech

community, communicative competence, ethnography of speaking; language of

wider communication; lingua franca; language and social inequality; language in

diaspora; new linguistic world orders.

Linguistic Variability: Patterns in linguistic variation, linguistic variables and

their co-variation with linguistic dimensions, social class / social network / age /

gender/ ethnicity; language loyalty, social identity and social attitudes,

stereotypes.

Language Contact: Bilingualism, multilingualism; code-mixing and code-

switching; outcomes of language contact: language maintenance, borrowing,

convergence, substratum effect, pidginization and creolization; language loss.

Language Development: Language planning, corpus and status planning,

standardisation and modernisation; language movements – state and societal

interventions; script development and modifications; linguistic minorities and

their problems.

Language Ecology and Endangerment: Superdiversity; linguistic landscaping,

linguistic vitality, language endangerment, parameters of endangerment,

documentation of endangered languages, revitalisation.

Sociolinguistic Methodology: Sampling and tools; identification of sociolinguistic

variables and their variants; data processing and interpretation; quantitative

analysis of data; variable rules; ethnomethodology; participant observation.

Unit 8. Areal Typology and South Asian Language Families

Language Typology, Universals and Linguistic Relatedness: Language

typology and language universals; morphological types of languages—

agglutinative, analytical (isolating), synthetic fusional (inflecting),

infixing and polysynthetic (incorporating) languages. formal and

substantive universals, absolute and statistical universals;

implicational and non-implicational universals; linguistic

relatedness—genetic, typological and areal classification of

languages.

Approaches for Study: Inductive vs deductive approaches; universals

of language and parametric variation; word order typology;

Greenberg’s characteristics for verb final and verb medial languages

and related features in the context of South Asian Languages.

Salient Features of South Asian Languages: Phonetic, phonological,

morphological, and syntactic features of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austro-

Asiatic, and Tibeto-Burman language families of South Asia;

Linguistic Survey of India as a source of information; contact induced

typological change; convergence and syntactic change.

India as a Linguistc Area: The notion of linguistic area; language

contact and convergence with special reference to the concept of

‘India as a Linguistic Area’; features of retroflexion, vowel harmony,

aspiration, reduplication, echo formation, onomatopoeia, explicator

compound verbs, anaphora; India as a sociolinguistic area, India as a

semantic area; notion of microlinguistic area.

Unit 9. Interdisciplinary and Applied Linguistics—I

(Psycholinguistics, Language Learning and Language Teaching)

Psycholinguistics

Basic Concepts: Basic issues in psycholinguistics, brain language relationship, the

different theoretical orientations: empiricist-behaviourist, biological-

nativist, and cognitive-interactionalist, biological foundations of language;

language acquisition and stages; critical pe r i o d h y p o t h e s i s .

Language Processing: The processes of perception, comprehension and

production; evidence of language production; steps in comprehension; mental

representation of language and lexicon; relationship between comprehension and

production.

Clinical Psycholinguistics: Normal and pathological language;

aphasia; dyslexia; stuttering; language in the hearing-impaired; language in

mental retardation.

Language Learning and Language Teaching:

Language Teaching and Language Learning: First and second language

learning; behaviouristic and cognitive theories of language learning; social and

psychological aspects of second language acquisition; methods of language

teaching; materials and teaching-aids in language teaching; computer assisted

language teaching (CALT); language testing: types of tests; validity, reliability

and standardization of tests; Interlanguage.

Language Teaching Analysis: Goals of language teaching; factors in the

preparation of a language teaching syllabus: linguistic theory, social and

psychological factors, needs analysis, class-room presentation; text-book

evaluation; types of syllabus: structural, communicative, notional; the role of the

teacher and teacher training; role of self-access packages; socio-linguistic and

psychological aspects of language teaching and learning.

Contrastive Analysis: Error analysis and interlanguage; basic

interpersonal communicative skills (BICS) and cognitive advanced language

proficiency (CALP);

Unit 10. Interdisciplinary and Applied Linguistics—II (Translation,

Lexicography, Computational Linguistics, Stylistics, Language and Media)

Translation

Paraphrase, translation and transcreation; translation of literary text and

technical text; use of linguistics in translation; linguistic affinity and

translatability; untranslatability; units of translation; equivalence of meaning and

style; translation loss and gain; problems of cultural terms; scientific terms; idioms,

metaphors and proverbs; false friends and translation shifts; evaluation of

translation; fidelity and readability; types of translation—simultaneous

interpretation, machine aided translation, media translation (dubbing, copy-

editing, advertisement, slogans, jingles, etc.)

Lexicography

Making of a Dictionary: Linguistics and lexicography, dictionary entries—

arrangement of information; meaning descriptions—synonymy, polysemy,

homonymy, antonymy and hyponymy; treatment of technical terms vs. general

words.

Types of Dictionaries: Literary, scientific and technical; comprehensive and

concise, monolingual and bilingual; general and learner’s. historical and

etymological, dictionary of idioms and phrases, encyclopaedic dictionary,

electronic dictionary, reverse dictionary, thesaurus and other distinguishing

purposes and features of various types; computational lexicography.

Computational Linguistics

Artificial intelligence and language; natural language processing (NLP);

computational linguistics and its relation to allied disciplines; machine

language; parsing and generation; parsers; compilers; interpreters—information

processing, structuring and manipulating data; corpus building; attempts of

NLP and corpus work in India: Anusāraka parsing: morphological recognizers,

analyzers and generators for Indian languages; designing code, building of

machine translation systems (MTS); hyper grammars, building of word nets,

The Kolhapur Corpus of Indian English, the TDIL Corpus Project.

Stylistics

Style— individual style, period style; style as choice, style as deviation, style

as ‘rīti’, style as ‘alankāra’; style as ‘vyanjanā’ (‘vakrokti’); Foregrounding;

Parallelism; Text as grammar: structure and texture, cohesion and coherence;

semiotic aspects of a literary text; stylistics of discourse; levels of stylistic

analysis—phonological, lexical, syntactic and semantic; stylistic devices in

literary texts.

Language and Media

Mass media: print and electronic, types of language used in mass media: news,

editorials, advertising, writing and editing for print and electronic media, impact

of mass media on language.

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