Syllabus

EXAM PART IV: Semantics (Jan 13-Jan 16)

Week	Topic	Preparatory reading	Video lectures & further reading (optional)
1	Overview: language & linguistics	Bieswanger & Becker 2017: 1–10	How to find the textbook
2	Speech & writing	Rogers 2005	Writing systems and the history of English orthography
3	Phonetics I	Bieswanger & Becker 2017: 39–50	IPA, speech organs, consonants Vowels Introduction to articulatory phonetics Plag et al. 2009: 1–16 Plag et al. 2009: 29–54
4	Phonetics II	Bieswanger & Becker 2017: 50–58	Phonetics Plag et al. 2009: 54–65
5	Phonology I	Bieswanger & Becker 2017: 58–64	Phonology I
EXAM PART I: Phonetics (Nov 18-Nov 21)
6	Phonology II	Bieswanger & Becker 2017: 64–73	Phonology II Phonology III
7	Morphology I	Bieswanger & Becker 2017: 75–95	Morphology I Morphology II Morphology III
EXAM PART II: Phonology (Dec 2-Dec 5)
8	Morphology II	Bieswanger & Becker 2017: 75–95 (same as before)	Morphology IV Morpology V
9	Semantics I	Bieswanger & Becker 2017: 128–141	The Lexicon Lexical Relations
EXAM PART III: Morphology (Dec 16-Dec 19)
Christmas
10	Semantics II	Bieswanger & Becker 2017: 141–150	Presupposition and Entailment Topic & Focus
11	Syntax I	Stefanowitsch & Middeke 2019: Introduction & Phrase Structure	Syntax I
EXAM PART IV: Semantics (Jan 13-Jan 16)
12	Syntax II	Stefanowitsch & Middeke 2019: Clause structure	Syntax II
13	Syntax III	Stefanowitsch & Middeke 2019: Sentence structure	Syntax III Syntax IV
14	Pragmatics	Bieswanger & Becker 2017: 151–170	Pragmatics & Speech-act Theory
EXAM PART V: Syntax (Feb 3-Feb 6)
15	Text linguistics	Stefanowitsch 2020
16	Final discussion and preview on advanced modules
EXAM PART VI: Pragmatics & text linguistics (Feb 3-Feb 6)

Freie Universität Berlin

Introduction to Linguistics

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