Table of Contents

about

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


schedule

🎞 = 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)

0. about

📅 10 September
🎞 PDF, HTML, TXT

1. language and science

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

2. language and power

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

3. phonetics

📅 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

4. phonology

📅 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

5. morphology

📅 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

6. syntax

📅 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

7. semantics

📅 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

8. pragmatics

📅 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

10. language variation and change

📅 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

11. child language acquisition

📅 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

12. adult language learning

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

14. historical linguistics

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

assessment

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.