Exercises
General Linguistics
Theory, Model, Method
- Exercises on Basic notions
- Why study linguistics
- Sequences of sounds
- What is language
- Language differences and conceptualisation
- System of communication
- Language study
- Animal communication
- Properties of human language
- General terms
- What is grammar
- Meanings of the word grammar
- Prescriptive and descriptive grammars
- Language competence: grammatical versus communicative
- Language competence: judging acceptability
- Social dimension of language
- Different but same
- Exercises on Linguistic Theories and Models
- Exercises on Method
- Basic Terminology
- Activity: Elicitation of Responses
- Research exercise: Experimental Linguistics
- Distinctions longitudinal versus cross-sectional and qualitative versus quantitative
- Distinctions Qualitative versus Quantitative
- Activity: Quantitative Analysis
- Activity: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
- Classic Corpus Analysis: Discovery Procedures
Phonetics and Phonology
Phonetic Exercises
- Preliminaries
- Describing sounds
- Place of Articulation ExerciseI
- Place of Articulation ExerciseII
- Place of Articulation ExerciseIII
- Place of Articulation ExerciseIV
- Place of Articulation ExerciseV
- Exercise Voicing
- Initial Sounds
- Manner of Articulation Exercise I
- Manner of Articulation Exercise 1b
- Manner of Articulation Exercise 1c
- Manner of Articulation Exercise 2
- Manner of Articulation Exercise 3
- Manner of Articulation Exercise 4
- Airstream Mechanisms Exercise
- Airstream Mechanisms Questionnaire
- Transcription Exercises
Phonology Exercises
- Minimal Pair Exercises
- Stress
Morphology
- Morphology: The Analysis of Words
- Exercises on Word-Formation
Syntax
- X-Bar Theory and Constituent Structure
- Basic terminology 1
- Basic terminology 2
- Basic terminology 3
- The structure of VPs
- Ambiguous VPs
- The structure of NPs
- Ambiguous NPs
- The structure of APs
- The structure of PPs
- Movement test: Exercise
- Proformt test: Exercise
- Coordination test: Exercise
- Intrusion test: Exercise
- Sentence fragment test: Exercise
- Omission test: Exercise
- VP-deletion: Exercise
- Syntactic tests 1
- Syntactic tests 2
- Explain ungrammaticality
- Functional Categories: DP, IP, and CP
Semantics
- Basic notions
- Structure-oriented semantics
Lexical word structure I
Context-sensitive lexical structure I
Sentence semantics
- Cognitive semantics
Lexical word structure II
Context-sensitive lexical structure II
Pragmatics
- Deixis and Distance
- Co-text and Cohesion
- Reference and Inference
- Cooperation and Implicature
- Speech Acts and Events
- Threatening Felicity Conditions
- Locating Speech Acts
- Action as Answer
- Speech Acts in Use
- Implicite and Explicite Performatives
- Problems with the Performative Hypothesis
- Problems with the Performative Hypothesis
- Felicity Conditions in Betting
- Analysis of speech acts in natural spontaneous discourse (Research Exercise)
- Social class differences in the use of directives (Research Exercise)
- Women's use of indirect speech acts (Research Exercise)
- Politeness and Interaction
- Conversation Structure and Analysis
Selected Subfields
History of English
Varieties of English
Corpus Linguistics
Syntactic Theory
- Traditional Grammar
- Identifying word boundaries
- Syntactic rules
- Identify what causes ungrammaticality
- Identify nouns
- Diagnostic environments for subclasses of nouns
- Assign major part of speech labels
- Identify pronouns
Solution to 'Identify pronouns' - Assign part of speech labels
- Identify structural ambiguities
- Apply constituent tests
- Find constituent brackets
- Internal structure of NPs
- Internal structure of VPs
- Assign phrasal categories
- Construct sentences with grammatical functions
- Identify grammatical functions
- Assign grammatical functions
- Assign general grammatical functions
- Government and Binding
- Draw X-bar structures
- X-bar structure of an ambiguous NP
- Identifying thematic roles
- Establishing thematic roles
- Number of thematic roles
- Assigning thematic roles
- Theta Issues
- Theta criterion
- Wh-movement in the Main Clause
- Constraints on Wh-movment
- Wh-movement in the Relative Clause
- Comprehensive Exercise
- Questions on wh-movement
- Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
- Generating Sentences with a Context-free Phrase Structure Grammar
- Identify the grammar rules
- Determine ARG-ST and VAL values
- Argument Structure
- Binding Principles
- Ungrammatical Sentences
- Properties of the Active - Passive Relation
- Explaining the Passive Lexical Rule
- Deriving a Passive Participle
- Tree Structure was chased
Cognitive Approaches
Language and Media
- Language of Newspapers
- Language of Advertising
- Language of SMS
- Language of Propaganda
- TV Language
- Instant Messaging