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5th June 2015, 02:52 PM
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Re: Calcutta University Linguistics Syllabus

Hey pawan as you said you want the syllabus of linguistics 1st sem of Calcutta university
as per your request here I am providing you the syllabus of linguistics 1st of culcutta university

Historical Linguistics I
Borrowing- Lexical and Structural; Motivations of borrowing; Types of borrowing- cultural, intimate, dialect; Direction of borrowing; Classification of loan words- calque,
loan blend, loan translation, tatsama, tadbhava etc; Impact of borrowing – Pidgin, Creole.
Semantics – basic concept and types of semantic change.
Analogy – basic concept and types of analogical change; Interplay of sound change and
analogy; Introducing Neogrammarian hypothesis; Family Tree and Wave Model;
Extensions of Neogrammarian theory- social motivations for sound change- studies of
William Labov- Martha’s Vineyard and New York City; Lexical Diffusion of sound
change- concept and application.

Phonetics
Module I
Definition, aim and scope of Phonetics; Branches of Phonetics; Organs of Speech;
Processes of speech production—Airstream process, Phonation process, Voice Onset
time, Articulatory process, Oro-nasal process.
Module II
Classification of speech sounds: vowels and consonants (vocoid and contoid);
Production, classification and description of consonants; Production, classification and
description of vowels; Cardinal vowels; Monophthongs vs. Diphthongs; Types of
diphthongs; Syllable; International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA); Phonetic transcription and
its types;
Fundamentals of Acoustic phonetics

Introduction to Linguistics
Module I
Scope and nature of linguistics; Branches of linguistics; Language and Communication.
Definition of language; Characteristics of language.
Theories regarding the origin of language.
Levels of language and their hierarchy; phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic.
Language relation: genetic, areal, typological and morphological.
Language: spoken language and written modes and relation between them; Writing systems:
evolution of writing systems.
Concepts of Syntagmatic and Pardigmatic Relations; Synchronic and Diachronic relations;
Competence and Performance; Innateness hypothesis; Langue and Parole.
Language universals and specific properties of language

Contact:-

University Of Calcutta
Senate House, 87/1, College Street
Kolkata,
West Bengal 700073
[MAP]University Of Calcutta[/MAP]


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