Educational guide 2023_24 Faculty of Arts

Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign/Second Language (2015)

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Language and linguistics	1.1. Linguistics and its subfields 1.2. Prescriptive and descriptive grammars and rules 1.3. Speech vs writing 1.4. Formal vs informal language 1.5. Standard, non-standard and incorrect language
2. Sentence typology	2.1. Major types of sentences 2.2. Minor types of sentences 2.3. Representing clauses
3. Morphology: Basic concepts	3.1. Words, word-forms and lexemes 3.2. Morphemes, morphs and allomorphs 3.2.1. Bound vs free 3.2.2. Lexical vs grammatical 3.2.3. Inflectional vs derivational 3.2.4. Portmanteau morphs and suppletion 3.2.5. Syncretism, defectiveness, irregularity 3.3. Roots, affixes, stems, bases 3.4. The lexicon and morphological rules
4. Morphology: The classification of words	4.1. Closed-system items vs open-class items 4.2. Traditional parts of speech 4.3. Word classes: Criteria for a formal classification 4.3.1. Grammatical categories 4.3.2. Semantic criteria 4.3.3. Morphological criteria 4.3.4. Syntactic criteria 4.4. Word classes 4.4.1. Nouns 4.4.2. Pronouns 4.4.3. Determiners and quantifiers 4.4.4. Verbs 4.4.5. Auxiliaries 4.4.6. Adjectives 4.4.7. Adverbs 4.4.8. Prepositions 4.4.9. Conjunctions 4.4.10. Other
5. English word formation: an overview	5.1. Morphological structure 5.2. Word formation processes 5.2.1. Productive vs lexicalization 5.2.2. Derivational processes 5.2.2.1.1. Affixation 5.2.2.1.2. Conversion 5.2.2.1.3. Category change 5.2.2.1.4. Semantic change 5.2.3. Compounding 5.2.3.1.1. Semantic classification 5.2.3.1.2. Syntactic classification 5.2.3.1.3. Compounds versus phrases 5.2.4. Other word formation processes 5.2.4.1.1. Clipping 5.2.4.1.2. Blending 5.2.4.1.3. Acronyms 5.2.4.1.4. Back-formation 5.2.4.1.5. Word manufacture 5.2.4.1.6. Idioms and collocations

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