Important Questions For Linguistics

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Important Questions For Linguistics


 1. LANGUAGE

1. Language and its Characteristics
2. Human Language and Animal Communication
3. Language and Speech
4. Language Acquisition
5. Multilingualism
6. Language and Culture
7. Causes of Language Change
8. Descriptive and Prescriptive Approach to the Investigation of Language

 2. LINGUISTICS

9. Linguistics and its Levels
10. Branches of Linguistics and Their Scope
11. Theories of Linguistics
12. Comparative Linguistics
13. Sociolinguistics and its Significance
14. Psycholinguistics
15. Growth and Development of Historical Linguistics
16. Contribution of Ferdinand de Saussure to the Study of Modern Linguistics
3. PHONETICS & MORPHOLOGY

17. Phonetics and its Main Branches
18. Places and Manners of Articulation
19. Consonants
20. Vowels
21. Plosives and Fricatives
22. Transcription with Examples
23. Morphemes
24. Inflectional and Derivational Morphology
 
4. SYNTAX & GRAMMAR

25. I.C. Analysis and its Major Flaws
26. Phrase Structure Grammar
27. Generative Grammar
28. Systematic Grammar
29. Tree Diagram Giving P-Markers with Examples
30. Grammar and its Major Kinds
31. Structuralism
32.  Grammatical Units
5. SEMANTICS & STYLISTICS

33. Semantics and Some Types of Meaning
34. Lexical Semantics
35. Structural Semantics
36. Major Semantic Theories
37. Semantic Field Theory
38. Componential Analysis
39. Semantic Structure
40. Stylistics and its Significance

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