പൊതുഭാഷാശാസ്ത്രം

ഭാഷാശാസ്ത്രപഠനം എന്ന ശാസ്ത്രീയമേഖല
 
S3/P2C-GENERAL LINGUISTICS

Unit – I: Introduction - communication - C0mmunication model - functions of Language - Developments of Linguistics - Basic principles of Modern Linguistics, Classification of Language: Early concept regarding Language - Definition of Language - Structural and Genealogical classifications - Language families - Dravidian family of Languages - General characterists of Dravidian Languages - Cultivated and uncultivated Dravidian language.
Unit – II: Phonology : Articulatory  Phonetics  - Articulators and position of articulation - Phone - Phoneme - allophone - Vowel Classification - Consonant Classification - Supra segmental -  Co-articulation - Free variation - Phonemic change.
Morphology: Morph - Morpheme - Allomorph - Identification and classification of Morpheme.
Unit – III: Syntax: Immediate constituent analysis - Phrase structure - Transformational grammar - Deep and surface structure - transformational rules, Semantics: Approaches - Synchronic, Diachronic
Unit – IV: Dialectology:  Standard Language - Idiolect and dialect -Isogloss - Focal area - relic area - Transition area - Dialect survey method - Uses of dialect study - socio linguistics
Unit – V: Linguistics analysis of Malayalam: Its periodical changes at phonological morphological, syntactical and lexical levels - description of early, middle and modern Malayalam