Syllabus
Here you will find the syllabus of the Descriptive Grammar course. It contains lists of references for each topic (including some files and links to the internet sources).
- Approaches to language
- The beginnings
- Ferdinand de Saussure & Structural Linguistics
- Generative Grammar
- CL
- SWH
References:
- Bynon, T and F.R. Palmer (1986) Studies in the History of Western Linguistics. New York: CUP.
- Fromkin, V., R. Rodman and N. Hyams (2007) An Introduction to Language. New York: Thomson Wordsworth.
- Gordon, W.T. (1982) A History of Semantics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Lakoff, G. (1987) Women, Fire and Dangerous Things. What Categories Reveal about the Mind. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
- Lakoff, G. and M. Johnson (1980) Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
- Pullum, G.K. (2004) ‘Ideology, Power and Linguistic Theory’.
- Radford, A. (1988) Transformational Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Robins, R.H. (1997) A Short History of Linguistics. New York: Longman.
- Saussure, F. de. (1983) Course in General Linguistics. Eds. C. Bally and A. Sechehaye. Trans. R. Harris. La Salle, Illinois: Open Court.
- Seuren, P.A.M. (1998) Western Linguistics: An Historical Introduction. Malden: Blackwell Publishers.
- Trask, R.L. (1999) Language: The Basics, London and New York: Routledge.
- Trudgill, P. (1994) Dialects, London and New York: Routledge.
- Trudgill, P., A. Hughes and D. Watt (2005) English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles, Hodder Education.
- Ungerer, F. and H-J. Schmid (1996) An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. Harlow: Pearson Education.
- Yule, G. (1996) The Study of Language. Cambridge: CUP.