Week - 1 |
Introduction to the Course:Linguistics and Macrolinguistics |
Week - 2 |
Language History and Change I: Language Families, Cognates, Comparative Reconstruction |
Week - 3 |
Language History and Change II: Phonological and Morphological Changes |
Week - 4 |
Language History and Change II: Syntactic and Semantic Changes |
Week - 5 |
Language Variation I: Dialectology, Regional Dialects, Types of Variation: phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic |
Week - 6 |
Language Variation II: Degree of Variation: Accent, Dialect, Language; Dialect Atlases, Isogloss, Dialect Boundary, Dialect Continuum |
Week - 7 |
Midterm Week |
Week - 8 |
Midterm Week |
Week - 9 |
Bilingualism, Diglossia, Language Planning, Turkish Language Reform
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Week - 10 |
Contact Languages: Pidgins, Creoles, Pidginization, Creolization, Decreolization |
Week - 11 |
Social Dialects, User-based Variables: Social Class, Education, Ethnic Background, Age, Gender |
Week - 12 |
Social Dialects - Usage-based variables: Style, Prestige, Register, Jargon, Slang, Taboo, Euphemisms |
Week - 13 |
Language, Thought, Culture: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Gognitive View, Language and Nationalism, Language Rights, Language Death |
Week - 14 |
Review and Practice |