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The cognitive basis of language - language and thought - overview,introduction - sign systems, structuring principles in language, linguisticand conceptual categories, summary, further reading, assignments; what's in aword? lexicology - overview, introduction -words, meanings and concepts, fromwords to meanings - semasiology, from concepts to words - onomasiology,conclusion - interplay between semasiology and onomasiology, summary, furtherreading, assignments; meaningful building blocks - morphology - overview,introduction, compounding, derivation, other word-formation processes,inflection and function words, conclusion - morphology, lexicon and syntax,summary, further reading, assignments; putting concepts together -syntax -overview, introduction - syntax and grammar, event schemes and participantroles, hierarchical and linear structure of the sentence, the groundingelements of a sentence, summary, further reading, assignments; the sounds oflanguage - phonetics and phonology - overview, introduction - phonetics andphonology, production of speech sounds, consonants, vowels, phonemes andallophones - phonemic transcription, beyond the phoneme, sounds in context,summary, further reading, assignments; language, culture and meaning -cross-cultural semantics - overview, introduction - linguistic relativity anduniversalism, culture-specific words, culture-specific grammar, culturalscripts, conclusion - language, culture and thought, summary, furtherreading, assignments; doing things with words - pragmatics -overview,introduction - what is pragmatics? constitutive speech acts and felicityconditions, informative speech acts and cooperative interaction; obligativespeech acts and polite interaction; conclusion - interplay between sentencestructure and communicative intentions, summary, further reading,assignments; structuring texts - text linguistics - overview, communication,text and text linguistics, text representation, coherence versus cohesion,referential coherence, relational coherence, survey of coherence relations,summary, further reading, assignments; language across time - historicallinguistics -overview, language change and language variation, methods ofstudying historical linguistics, typology of language change, causation andpredictability, summary, further reading, assignment; language comparison -sociology of language, language typology and contrastive linguistics -overview, comparing languages, language typology, contrastive linguistics,summary, further reading assignments.