Learning Outcomes
After the first semester the student will be able to approach language and language issues in an unbiassed scientific manner, he will be able to make the difference between synchronic and diachronic dimensions, and will be able to evade any kind of bias of prejudice sometimes present in linguistic thought.
Course Content (Syllabus)
The nature of language and languages, languages and language families, morphology, lexicology, syntax, historical linguistics
Additional bibliography for study
Lyons, J.: Εισαγωγή στη γλωσσολογία. Αθήνα: Πατάκης, 2001 (©1995), Κρύσταλ, Ντ.: Λεξικό γλωσσολογίας και φωνητικής. Αθήνα: Πατάκης, ©2000