4.11406~Introduction to Linguistics 2020

Course Outline

GENESUTRA 2nd edition

Foreword

Sutra 1. On Human Cognition, Knowledge, and Understanding

Sutra 2. Language - a Complex Whole

Sutra 3. Word-Meaning: the Smallest Unit of Language

Sutra 4. The Whole Is More than the Sum of Its Parts

Sutra 5. The Rational Mechanism of Language

Sutra 6. Logic & Syntax

Sutra 7. Morphology

Sutra 8. Allomorphy

Sutra 9. The Atoms of Language

Sutra 10. Phonology

The Gist of Genesutra

Appendix I. A Brief Survey of the History of Linguistics

Appendix II. Basic Terms & Concepts

Appendix III. Gnalysis: practical examples

Appendix IV. Fun Stuff

Appendix V. The Syntax of Semantics

Appendix VI. Past Exams