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This document provides an overview of an introductory linguistics course including information on its three parts: syntax, semantics, and phonology. It identifies the course instructors and their office hours and contact information. Additionally, it outlines class times and locations, course website information, exam and exercise expectations, and required student information for registration. Readings are recommended for further background on various linguistic topics that will be covered.

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Introduction to General Linguistics WS10/11 page 1

Introductory session: 19th October 2010 Sam Featherston


Course overview
The three parts of the course
• Syntax (the theory of phrase structure and sentence structure)
Sam Featherston
Dates: 19.10.10 – 02.12.10

• Semantics (the theory of meaning)


Gerhard Jäger
Dates: 07.12.10 – 03.02.11

• Phonology and phonetics (theory of linguistic sounds and sound systems)


Christian Ebert
Dates: 22.10.10 – 04.02.11

Teachers
Christian Ebert
Office hours: Tuesday, 13.00-14.00
Office: Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, 1.19
Email: [email protected]
Sam Featherston
Office hours: Tuesday, Thursday 10.00-10.15
Office: Nauklerstraße 35, 2.09
Email: [email protected]
Gerhard Jäger
Office hours: to be arranged
Office: Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, 1.20
Email: [email protected]

Tutors
Marisa Delz
Email: [email protected]
Feliks Rozenberg
Email: [email protected]
Johannes Wahle
Email: [email protected]

Class times
Syntax and Semantics are on Tuesday and Thursday 8.30s.t.-10.00 for half a semester each,
Phonology is on Friday 8.30s.t.-10.00 for the whole semester, room 0.02 in the Seminar für
Sprachwissenschaft.
Notice that this 8.30 is NOT cum tempore but sine tempore. That is, we really start at 8.30.
The times and rooms of the tutorials will be arranged at the first meeting.
Introduction to General Linguistics WS10/11 page 2

Course web site


http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~sam/teach/IntroGenLing/
All of the information on this sheet and much more is available on the course web site. The
handouts for the classes are also accessible there.

Photos
We take photos of each student and publish them on the class web pages. This helps everyone
get to know each other faster. We never save the photo under the person's name and we
delete all photos later in the year. However, if you don't want me to publish your picture or
name, just tell me and I will remove it immediately.

Exercises
We give exercises to revise the issues raised in class and to extend analyses to related areas.
These are important, as you need to learn how to analyze structures yourself. These exercises
are important, because they practise exactly the skills which you will need in the exam.

Exams
I repeat: the exams will test the skills and knowledge that you have practised in doing the
problems in class and between classes. If you have read and understood the handouts, and can
do the excercises, then you can do the exams.

What information we need from you


- your first name (and what you would like us to call you, if this is different)
- your family name (underline this)
- the degree course which you are doing (eg BA Film Studies, MA Sport Science)
- the semester of the course that you are in (eg first, third)
- whether linguistics is your main subject (Hauptfach) or subsidiary subject (Nebenfach)
- an e-mail address
- your immatriculation number

Reading
General introductions:
Fromkin et al. (2003) Linguistics: An introduction to linguistic theory.
Grewendorf et al. (1987) Sprachliches Wissen
Baker (2001) The atoms of language
Haegeman (2006) Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis.

Background:
Pinker (1995) The language instinct (or in German: Der Sprachinstinkt)
Pinker (2000) Word and rules (or in German Wörter und Regeln)
Aitchison (1989) The articulate mammal (3rd edition)
Linke (2004) Studienbuch: Linguistik (5. Auflage)
Musan (2008) Satzgliedanalyse

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