Course Description

The course has two major goals: (1) to introduce basic terminology and concepts commonly used in modern Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, and (2) to provide practice in analyzing language. At the end of this course, students should be able to conduct a structural analysis of basic linguistic data in a scientific and systematic manner.

人間言語の音韻システム、単語の構成、文の構造、意味のとらえ方などに焦点をあて、言語学の基礎体系を学ぶ。具体的な言語分析になれることによって、人間言語がどのようなシステムになっているか、また、どのように働くのかを理解する。

Oct 03 Phonetics: the study of speech sounds. & Phonology: the study of the organization of language sounds.

Oct15 Morphology: the study of the make-up of words.

Syntax: the study of how phrases and sentences larger than the word are constructed.

Semantics: the study of meaning.