Articulatory phonetics: articulators, consonants and vowels, allophones. Phonology: phoneme, phonological phenomena, phonological rules. Semantics: denotation, reference, sense, sense relations. Syntax: sentence structure, constituency, tree diagrams, phrase structure rules, transformations. Morphology: morpheme, inflection, derivation, compounding.

The course is a general introduction to the historical and comparative study of the Indo-European languages, pinpointing the basic features on the levels of phonology, morphology, syntax, and the lexicon. This is a core course for the Linguistics major.

Review of assumptions and basic concepts of generative syntax. Grammaticality – ungrammaticality; sentence structure; X-bar theory; transformations; move A; bounding theory; case theory; empty categories; split Infl

Introduction to basic concepts in phonological theory (phoneme, contrast relations, phonological rules). Main phonological theories (linear and non-linear phonology, optimality theory). Methods of phonological analysis. Problem solving methodology.

Features of linguistic research; collection and processing of research data; bibliography in electronic and printed sources; academic skills; methodology in research report; presentation; research ethics.

The evolution of linguistic ideas from antiquity to modern times, starting with the oriental traditions of linguistics (China, India, Arabia) and continuing with the Western linguistic tradition (Greece, Rome, Medieval times, the Renaissance, and the subsequent centuries). Special emphasis is placed on the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, with the beginnings of historical linguistics and the development of various theoretical approaches to the study of language (Saussure, Bloomfield, Prague School of Linguistics, Glossematics, American structuralism, Transformational and Generative Linguistics, and various other trends). This is an elective course for all students of the School of Philosophy.

Origin and structure of the phonemic system of Ancient Greek and related issues: pronunciation, phonological rules, the laryngeal theory, the glottalic theory, vowel gradation (ablaut), etc. This is a core course for the students of the Department of Philology.

Introduction to basic concepts in phonetic theory; description of segments; leb methods of phonetic analysis; speech analysis and synthesis; voice recognition.

Introduction to semantic theory; sense relations; lexical meaning; structural semantics and semantic components; sentences with or without meaning; propositional content; sentential meaning; tense and aspect.

Theoretical and practical aspects of the morphological analysis of language: the concepts of morpheme, allomorph, word and lexeme, inflection, derivation and composition; the relation of morphology to other levels of language study, such as phonology and syntax; the concept of grammaticalization. The course is theory oriented, but a good part of it is devoted to the morphological analysis of Greek. This is a core course for the Linguistics major.

Introduction to neurolinguistics, pragmatics, language acquisition, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, and language change.

By applying an interdisciplinary approach and analyzing the lexicon of the older languages, the course discusses the cultural, social, and institutional life of the Indo-Europeans. To this end a number of methodological techniques are discussed, e.g. linguistic paleontology, Words and Things, semantic fields, comparative poetics, etc. This is an elective course and is open to all students of the School of Philosophy.