Balkh University
Languages and Literature Faculty
English Department
Course Policy
Subject Linguistics
Instructor
Semester 6th
Subject Code
Credit No. 2
Email: [email protected]
Phone number: +93780000202/ +93700500808
Contact- line:
Course Goals and
Objectives Course Goal
The goal of this course is to make student familiar with the linguistics and
subfields of linguistics. The main of focus of the subject in this semester will
be on word formation, Morphology, Grammar, Syntax .
Course Objectives
Upon the completion of the course student will be able to:
Understand rules of forming words
Analyze words morphologically
Understand the philosophy of Grammar
Analyze sentences syntactically
Know semantic theories
Student Centered Method
1
Teaching Method Interactive Method
Course Evaluation The assessment is based on the following criteria:
Task 1:(10%) Assessment of work or classroom activities
Task 2: (10%) Assessment of the assigned tasks
Midterm: (20%) (Descriptive, multiple-choice, practical writing)
Final Exam: 60%) (Descriptive, multiple-choice, practical writing)
Plagiarism and Cheating On any assignment will result in a zero grade for that assignment.
Late Work It is NOT acceptable.
Rules of Conduct within For better class management, please consider followings:
the Classroom:
• Inattentiveness is not permitted during lecture periods.
• Unnecessary interruption in the class proceeding must be avoided.
• Mobiles must be kept at silent mode.
Teaching Plan
Assignments and
Week Details of the lessons to be taught Teaching Method
Submission Date
Introduction to course policy and PowerPoint presentation
1st week
course contents Interactive Method
Word formation Interactive Method
Etymology
Coinage Class Discussion
Borrowing
2nd week
Compounding
Blending
Clipping
Backformation Task and projects
Conversion Content -Focused Method of the chapter
3rd week Acronyms Pair Work, Group Work
Derivation PowerPoint Presentation At the end of the
Prefixes and suffixes week 3.
Multiple process
2
Morphology PowerPoint presentation
Morphemes Interactive Method
4th week Free and bound morphemes
Lexical and functional morphemes
Derivational and inflectional
morphemes
Morphological description Interactive Method Discussion
Problems in morphological topics / project of
description Class Discussion the chapter. End
5th week
Morphs and allomorphs of week 5
Morphs and allomorphs
Other languages
Grammar
Traditional grammar Content -Focused Method
The parts of speech Pair Work, Group Work
6th week
Agreement PowerPoint Presentation
Grammatical gender
Traditional analysis
The perspective approach Content -Focused Method
Captain kirk’s infinitive Pair Work, Group Work
The descriptive approach PowerPoint Presentation
7th week Structural analysis
Constituent analysis
Labeled and bracketed sentences
A Gaelic sentence
Syntax Content -Focused Method
Deep and surface structure Pair Work, Group Work
Structural ambiguity PowerPoint Presentation
8th week
Recursion
Tree diagrams
Symbols used in syntactic analysis
Phrase structure rules lexical rules Content -Focused Method
movement rules Pair Work, Group Work
9th week Back to recursion PowerPoint Presentation
Complement phrase
Semantic Content -Focused Method
Meaning Pair Work, Group Work
10th week Semantic features PowerPoint Presentation
Semantic roles
3
Agent and
Content -Focused Method
Pair Work, Group Work
11th week PowerPoint Presentation
Content -Focused Method
Pair Work, Group Work
12th week PowerPoint Presentation
Final Exam
Prerequisite Subjects
No
Course Materials and References
Yule, G. (2006). The study of language. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press