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Course design and materials development:
Hubert Truckenbrodt

Original web pages:
Kathrin Eichler
Sonja Lohrengel
Hubert Truckenbrodt

Maintained by:
Sam Featherston
Last change 13.10.2010

Introduction to General Linguistics

Sam Featherston (Syntax)

Office hours: Tuesday, Thursday 10.00-10.15
Office: Nauklerstraße 35, 2.09
Homepage: www.sfb441.uni-tuebingen.de/~sam

Gerhard Jäger (Semantics)

Office hours:
Office: Wilhelmstraße 19, 1.20
Homepage: www2.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/jaeger

Christian Ebert (Phonology and phonetics)

Office hours: Tuesday 13.00-14.00
Office: Wilhelmstraße 19, 1.19
Homepage: http://www2.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~cebert

Marisa Delz (Tutor)

Feliks Rozenberg (Tutor)

Johannes Wahle (Tutor)

Classes:

Syntax and Semantics are on Tuesday, Thursday 08.30-10.00 for half a semester each, Phonology and Phonetics is on Friday 8.30-10.00 for the whole semester, in the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Wilhelmsstraße 19, Room 0.02. Classes start in the week beginning 18th October, so the first class is on Tuesday 19th October.

Tutor sessions

The tutor sessions are designed to offer extra practice, further details of matters touched upon the course, and advice. The course is divided into small groups so as to be able to give attention to each individual's needs and interests.

These will take place at times to be arranged so that all students can attend one. These times will be discussed at the first course session on 19th October.

The tutors will answer any of your questions that they can, linguistic, general, or philosophical, but the main point is to talk you through your homework exercises. Bear in mind however that he/she will *not* be available to help you in the exam, so it is essential to make every effort to do them yourself first.

The Course:

This course is an introduction to three core areas of theoretical linguistics:

the structure of phrases and sentences - syntax (with a bit of morphology)

the meaning of linguistic expressions - semantics (with a bit of pragmatics) and

the sound systems of language - phonology (with a bit of phonetics).

The material will largely revolve around the analysis of German and English, with occasional glances at other languages. The class introduces basic notions in linguistics, central aspects of the analysis of German and English, and seeks to convey an understanding of the approach of generative linguistics to natural language.

Requirements:

Weekly exercises, some reading, and an exam at the end of each sub-part.

These web pages and the course materials available within them were developed by Hubert Truckenbrodt for the course Introduction to General Linguistics in the winter term 2003/04. He has kindly made them available for further use within the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Tübingen University.