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