Credit Hours - 3

The course introduces students to how languages organize their sound and word units into larger structures and the patterns and principles underlying the organization of these units. The morphology component deals with various ways of identifying, classifying and analyzing the formal and semantic properties morphemes, the sub-lexical constituents of words. The phonology component deals with the nature of the sound and how it contributes to meaning, the changes it undergoes in various contexts and the principles driving these changes. Topics in phonology include: the phoneme, distinctive features, the syllable, and suprasegmental features. Topics in morphology includes: the morpheme, morphological processes and word formation processes

Credit Hours - 3

This course introduces students to the field of Sociolinguistics. It examines the relationship between language and society and exposes students to the dynamics of language use in actual social contexts and to certain basic concepts in sociolinguistics. The concepts include speech communities, communities of practice, communicative competence, language variation (e.g., in terms of gender and social class), monolingualism/bilingualism/multilingualism, domains of language use, language barriers, diglossia/triglossia, language (re)socialization, and language contact.

Credit Hours - 3

In this course, we will consider what morphology is and its place in relation to other areas of
linguistics such as phonology and syntax. The course will also examine certain morphological
phenomena found among the world‘s languages. Topics to be discussed include the
classification of morphemes according to position, distribution and function. We will also
discuss such morphological processes as inflection, derivation, compounding, reduplication,
and other word-formation processes.

Credit Hours - 3

The goal of the course is to introduce students to some fundamental concepts about sentence structure and meaning. The course will explore ways to identify forms belonging to various parts of speech, constituent structure, and semantic roles of arguments in a sentence. We will also discuss ways to approach of meaning in language. Further, we will examine various meaning relationships between different words and sentences.

Credit Hours - 3

The course introduces students to phonetics as a branch of Linguistics. It focuses on the mechanisms behind the production of speech sounds. It also deals with the description, classification and transcription of speech sounds. It will further provide students the opportunity to practise the production of speech sounds. Topics include: speech organs, airstream mechanisms, phonation types and articulation, vowels, consonants and suprasegmentals.