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-= final examination topics: BA, English track: linguistics
-⟦ under construction ⟧
-# The areas of linguistics. Definition and components of grammar. Other areas of linguistics. Distinction between phonetics/phonology, semantics/pragmatics, descriptive/prescriptive grammar.
-# Language variation. Codes and situations. Language and dialect, standard and non-standard, speech and writing. Style.
-# Words and morphemes: free vs bound; roots vs affixes; inflection vs derivation; (level) ordering in morphology; blocking (synonymy).
-# Language change. Historical linguistics. Sound change, grammatical change, lexical change. Language families, their branches. Proofs for the relatedness of languages.
-# Speech sounds, phonemes, allophones, distributions, phonetic similarity, alternations, neutralization.
-# The connection between spelling and pronunciation, regular and irregular spelling, the indication of different vowel categories (tense vs lax or checked vs free) in spelling.
-# Segmental rules: r-dropping/r-insertion, the influence of R on the preceding vowel, l-darkening/l-vocalization, yod-dropping, aspiration, flapping, glottalization and glottal replacement, past and 3sg.pres/plural allomorphy.
-# Stress rules, word stress, compound stress, sentence stress, stress clash, stress shift; intonation.
-# Syntactic aspects of words: word categories; distribution; categorial features; thematic and functional categories; subcategorisation; the lexicon.
-# Structure: hierarchical structure (constituents); phrases; grammatical functions; tests for structure; the X-bar framework (heads, complements, specifiers); adjunction.
-# The verb phrase: subcategories of verbs (unaccusative, causative, ergative, transitive, intransitive, prepositional, clausal complement, phrasal and multiple complement verbs); the role of light verbs; aspect and the role of auxiliary verbs.
-# IP and CP: tense and agreement; the position of the subject; the complementiser system; wh-movement and inversion.
-=== suggested readings
-* Victoria Fromkin & Robert Rodman.(1998). An Introduction to Language (Sixth Edition). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers.
-* David Crystal.(1997) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge University Press.
-* Nádasdy Ádám (2006) Background to English Pronunciation (Phonetics, Phonology, Spelling). Budapest: Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó
-* [[http://primus.arts.u-szeged.hu/bese/|Newson, Mark, Marianna Hordós, Dániel Papp, Krisztina Szecsényi, Gabriella Tóth and Veronika Vincze (2006) Basic English Syntax with Exercises, Bölcsész Konzorcium, Budapest.]]
-* your lecture notes