1. | Introduction | Overview of the Class | ||
2. | What is Language? | Knowledge and Performance | ||
3. | What is Language? | Language Universals | ||
4. | Brain and language | Human Brain | ||
5. | Brain and language | Autonomy of Language | ||
6. | The Words of Language | Morphemes | ||
7. | The Words of Language | Rules of word formation | ||
8. | Midterm Exam | |||
9. | The Words of Language | Sign language morphology | ||
10. | Sentence Patterns | Syntactic Rules | ||
11. | Sentence Patterns | Sentence Structure | ||
12. | Sentence Patterns | Sentence Relatedness | ||
13. | Meaning of Language | Compositional Semantics | ||
14. | Meaning of Language | Lexical Semantics | ||
15. | Meaning of Language | Pragmatics |