Linguistics

This course will extend the knowledge of clinical linguistics to various research fields like

neuolinguistics, psycholinguistics and other related area.

Traditional and Developmental History of Malayalam Language

Course Outcomes: CO1: Discuss the growth and development of 19th century historical and comparative linguistics CO2: Explain the different approaches to the study of language CO3: Identify different types of sound change occurring in the languages of the world CO4: Discuss about the phonetic laws proposed by different scholars CO5: Explain the process of reconstruction, internal reconstruction and comparative method. CO6: Distinguish between the lexicalization and grammaticalization process of sound change

CREDIT 4

Course Outcomes: CO1: Introduces the basics of phonological theory relation between Phonetics and Phonology, classification of sounds, the phonemic principles distinctive features, rule writing, and the construct ‘syllable’. CO2: Gives an opportunity to analyse and find out a phonological system for a language. CO3: How are languages organized as sound systems and how do these features transfer over to writing systems? CO4: Provides preliminary and analytical procedures in phonemic analysis. CO5: Apply the phonemic principles distinctive features, presented along with a brief introduction of IPA. CO6: Analytical problems to be worked out which gives a practice to analyse a language and reduce to writing.

This course Discusses how we perceive and express ideas and the way to establish effective

communication.

This course will extend the knowledge of clinical linguistics to various research fields likeneurolinguistics, psycholinguistics and other related area. It will Differentiate various communication disorders as speech and language disorders. This course will explain linguistics's role in managing clients with speech and language impairments.

Course Outcomes:

CO1: Speak about the Dravidian languages and their structural similarities and differences.

CO2: Compare the phonological, morphological, and syntactical structures of Dravidian languages and reconstruct the earlier stages.

CO3: Identify new structural correspondence of Dravidian languages and explain.

CO4: Observe and explain the changes in Dravidian languages.

CO5: Use the descriptive data of Dravidian languages to update the comparative reconstruction.

CO6: Reconstruct the proto form of genetically related language

This course explains how to plan, prepare, and conduct any type of linguistic fieldwork in any language community, Develop questionnaires for linguistic fieldwork according to the kind of fieldwork. Identify language consultants and elicit linguistic data, Identify the vitality of the language and document the endangered languages and Make use of advanced technologies and international standards to elicit

This course explains the different approaches to the study of language. It discusses the growth and development of 19th century historical and comparative linguistics. This course Identifies different types of sound change occurring in the languages of the world and discusses the phonetic laws proposed by different scholars. Also, this course explains the process of reconstruction, internal reconstruction, the comparative method. Distinguish between the lexicalization and grammaticalization process of sound change.

The main tenet of Transformational Grammar is considering languages as generative devices, namely a system of rules capable of generating the sentences

This is a three-credit internal elective course mainly offering to the third semester M.A. Linguistics students. This is an applied branch of Linguistics. Use linguistics to investigate the truth and deliver justice is the philosophy of Forensic Linguistics (henceforth FoLi).  Language can hide and reveals the truth. Language is evidence of truth. Therefore, the truth potential of language can be used for criminal and civil investigation, justice and rule of law. FoLi is the use of linguistics for crime investigation, court trial and other judicial procedures. FoLi covers the language of law, and language in investigation and language of trail and the issues of interpretation of judgment and law

This course will provide the theoretical notion of linguistics and communication studies.

This course will give the basics and key concepts regarding Linguistics. This course explains the difference between Language and Linguistics,  Ancient linguistics traditions, Levels of linguistic analysis, Human and Animal communication, Basics regarding language in cognition,  Sapir Whorf Hypothesis, Saussurean dichotomies, Language families, basics regarding sociolinguistics, Grammar, etc.

This course will give an overview idea of the clinical aspects of Linguistics studies. This course will expand the knowledge of clinical linguistics to various research fields like Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and other related areas.

This course aims to introduce Linguistic theories, its nature and scope and origin and development of Transformational Grammar. And also aims to impart knowledge to apply the Transformational Grammar to language analysis.

Semester: II 

Name of Course: CORPUS LINGUISTICS

Course Code: LIN-GC-506

Credit: 2

Course Outcomes:  

CO1: Build your own corpus for various language studies such as analysis, generation and documentation.

CO2: Analyse and categorize the applications for Corpus Linguistics in the Modern Information society.

CO3: Examine the Different corpus processing task such as parsing, Concordance, KWIC, Sorting, Indexing, Stemmer, Tokenization and etc.

CO4: Criticize and Evaluate the current Research & Development of Indian Language Corpora and Machine-Readable Language database.

CO5: Discuss, solve and improve the Current status of Malayalam Language computing. 

CO6: Evaluate different algorithms for Parsing and Morphological analyser and n-gram model for text and speech processing.