Foundations of Linguistics

title

Foundations of linguistics (FoL)/​A nyelvtudomány alapjai

code, type

BBN–FLN11–101/eng, 3-credit lecture course

instructor

Péter Szigetvári, Eötvös Loránd University

time, place, term

Tue 14:00–15:30, Gólyavár A, autumn 2024

🎞 = slides: illustration for and a reminder of what was going on in class (PDF and HTML are equivalent (if you have the font Roboto Condensed installed on your device), the markdown source, TXT, is provided for geeks)

📖 = obligatory reading: Catherine Anderson, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Derek Denis, Julianne Doner, Margaret Grant, Nathan Sanders, and Ai Taniguchi. 2022. Essentials of Linguistics (2nd ed.). Pressbooks by McMaster University.
we will skip chapters 9 and 13, you can download the whole coursebook in several formats, however, I recommend reading the online version (2.3), which has (i) videos and (ii) interactive exercises (the relevant online sections are linked to each lecture below)

📅 10 September
🎞 PDF, HTML, TXT

📅 10 September
🎞 PDF, HTML, TXT
📖 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, exercises

📅 17 September
🎞 PDF, HTML, TXT
📖 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.8, exercises

📅 24 September
🎞 PDF, HTML, TXT
📖 3.0 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12

📅 1 October
🎞 PDF, HTML, TXT
📖 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10

📅 8 October
🎞 PDF, HTML, TXT
📖 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, exercises

📅 15 & 22 October
🎞 PDF, HTML, TXT
📖 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.11, 6.12, 6.13, 6.14, 6.15, 6.16, 6.17, 6.18, 6.19, 6.20, 6.21, exercises

📅 5 November
🎞 PDF, HTML, TXT
📖 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10, 7.11, 7.12, 7.13, 7.14, exercises

📅 12 November
🎞 PDF, HTML, TXT
📖 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 8.10, 8.11, 8.12, 8.13, 8.14, 8.15, exercises

📅 19 November
🎞 PDF, HTML, TXT
📖 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, exercises

📅 26 November
🎞 PDF, HTML, TXT
📖 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 11.9, 11.10, exercises

📅 26 November
🎞 PDF, HTML, TXT
📖 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, exercises

📅 3 December
🎞 PDF, HTML, TXT
📖 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 14.8, 14.9

Written examination comprising multiple choice items; to pass more than half of your answers must be correct.

You must select one of the first two dates and register for it in Neptun. The third date is only for retakes.