Reading Assignment for L2 students

Dear L2 students...

Please read about the following elements:

1. Back ground

1.1 Linguistics as a Discipline (How Linguistics started)

1.2 The Scope of Historical Linguistics

1.2.1. The Notion of Change in Historical Linguistics.

1.2.2. Earliest forms

1.2.3. Language Families 

2. Saussurian Linguistics

2.2.1.  The Modularity of Linguistics

2.2.2.  Language as Sign

2.2.3. Langue and Parole

2.2.4. Syntagmatics and Paradigmatics

3. Phonology 

4. Morphology

 5. Syntax