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DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
FACULTY OF ARTS
A.M.U., ALIGARH _______________
Syllabus for Ph.D in Linguistics Admissions 2022-23 onwards
SECTION B
Air stream mechanism.
Phonation and articulation ( manner and place).
Cardinal vowels and diphthongs.
Consonants and vowels.
Syllable and its structure- onset, peak, coda.
Supra-segmental features.
Complex articulation- double, secondary, co articulation.
1. Phonetics and Phonology Acoustic characteristics o f speech- frequency, pitch, amplitude, intensity,
loudness, resonance.
Phonetic transcription.
Relation between phonetics and phonology.
American Structural Phonology
Distinctive Features
Generative Phonology
Auto-segmental phonology, Lexical Phonology
Concept o f morpheme, morph, allomorph.
Word, lexeme and morpheme, types o f morpheme; types o f affixes.
Phonological and morphological conditioning.
Root, base and stem.
Morphological processes- affixation, internal change, reduplication, suppletion
and zero modification.
2. Morphology
Inflectional morphology.
Derivational morphology.
Compounding and conversion; types o f compounding; sandhi; Productivity in
word formation
Lexical Morphology.
Prosodic Morphology
The structure o f phrases: lexical (NP,VP,PP ,AP).
Structural relations and thematic roles in a sentence.
Adjacency and case assignment.
3. Syntax Empty categories: PRO, pro, trace, parasitic gap.
WH-movement, constraints in movements, bounding theory.
X-bar theory, ECM(exceptional case marking).
History and Development o f Sociolinguistics.
Varieties o f language: language, dialect, sociolect, idiolect, style, register,
standard language, lingua-franca, pidgin and creole, speech community and
verbal
repertoire.
4. Sociolinguistics and Labovian sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics Methodology.
Dialectology Ethnography o f Communication.
Language Contact: Bilingualism- types o f bilingualism.
Borrowing; code switching, constraints in code switching.
Language convergence; diglossia, language spread; maintenance; shift and
death.
Multilingualism and language policy and planning in India.
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Learning theories- behaviouristic and mentalistic.
Defining psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics.
Localization o f language functions in brain.
Cerebral dominance.
5. Psycholinguistics Lan g u ag e disorders; schizophrenia, dyslexia, dysgraphia, anom ia,
ag ram m atism .
Aphasia; Global aphasia, Broca's aphasia,
Wernicke's aphasia.
Use o f linguistics in diagnosis and prognosis o f language disorder.
Reference and sense; denotation and connotation; meaning types.
Lexical semantics: sense relations and meaning opposition; componential
analysis;
marked and unmarked terms.
6. Semantics and Propositional meaning; meaning and truth conditions.
Pragmatics Tautology and contradiction; presupposition, entailment and implication;
abhida, vyanjana and lakshna.
Meaning, saying and implicating; speech acts.
The cooperative principle; the principle o f politeness.
Conversational Analysis; Discourse Markers and Hedges.
South Asian language families.
Typological relatedness: phonological, morphological, and word order.
South Asia as a linguistic area: expressive, echo-formation, reduplication,
7. South Asian Linguistics causative, conjunctive participles, explicator compound verbs.
South Asia as a sociolinguistic area: contact and convergence in border area.
South Asian language contacts during ancient, medieval and during colonial
period.
Language in Literature: Nature and Characteristics.
Foregrounding: Automatization and Deautomatization.
Style as Deviation and Choice.
Goals o f Language Teaching: First Language Teaching, Second or Foreign
Language Teaching; Behaviouristic and cognitive theories o f language
learning.
Language Teaching Methods: Grammar translation, Audio-lingual, Situational
language teaching, Communicative language teaching, Total physical
response, Community language learning; Teaching o f language skills.
8. Applied Linguistics:
Error analysis: Mistakes, Lapses and Errors: Inter lingual and Intra lingual;
Stylistics, Language
Errors:
Teaching and Translation
recognition, description and explanation o f errors: The significance o f
learners' error.
Language testing: principles and methods; Types o f tests, characteristics o f a
good test.
Use o f linguistics in Translation; Theories o f translation.
Types o f translation: inter lingual and intra lingual, full and partial, total and
restricted.
Translation, transliteration, transcription and transcreation.
Problems in translating scientific and technical texts. Literary texts.
