Seminar 3 The Revolutionary Role of Generative Grammar in the Development of Modern Linguistics
1. N. Chomsky - the most influential linguist of the 20th c.
2. Generativism as a school of the modern linguistics
3. Generative grammar
4. The key notions of generative grammar
5.The versions of generative grammar
Literature:
1. Бейлин Дж. Краткая история генеративной грамматики / Дж. Бейлин // Современная американская лингвистика: фундаментальные направления / под ред. А. А. Кибрика, И. М. Кобозевой, И. А. Секериной ; пер. с англ. – изд. 2-е, испр. и доп. – М.: Едиториал УРСС, 2002. – С. 13 – 57.
2. Fowler R. An Introduction to Transformational Syntax / R. Fowler. – L.: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973. – 178 p.
3. Freidin R. Foundations of Generative Syntax / Robert Freidin. – Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1992. – 365 p.
4. Haegeman L. English Grammar: A Generative Perspective / L. Haegeman and J. Guéron. – Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2002. – 674 p.
5. LaPalombara L. E. An Introduction to Grammar: Traditional, Structural, Transformational / L. E. La Palolambara. – Cambridge, Massachusetts: Winthrop Publishers, Inc., 1976. – 450 p.
Reports:
Noam Chomsky and his revolutionary role in linguistics of the 20th c.
Noam Chomsky and his successors
The fundamental works in generative grammar
The school of generative grammar in Ukraine
Child’s acquisition of a language as a key problem of generativism
The recent versions of generative grammar
The Minimalist theory of N. Chomsky.
Seminar 4 Language Acquisition as a Linguistic Problem
The notion of language acquisition in linguistics
General Approaches to language acquisition
L1acquisition and L2 acquisition: key features
Literature:
Негневицкая Е.И., Шахнарович А.М. Язык и дети / Е.И. Негневицкая, А.М. Шахнарович – М.: Издательство «Наука», 1981. – 110 с.
Пинкер С. Язык как инстинкт / Стивен Пинкер.; пер. с англ. Е. В. Кайдаловой / общ. ред. В. Д. Мазо. – [изд. 2-е испр.]. – М.: Книжный дом “ЛИБРОКОМ”, 2009. – 456 с.
Селіванова О. Сучасна лінгвістика: термінологічна енциклопедія / О. Селіванова. – Полтава: Довкілля – К, 2006. – 716 с.
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language / [ed. T. McArthur, R. McArthur]. – Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. – 700p.
Meisel Y.M. First and Second Language Acquisition: Parallels and Differences / Jurgen M. Meisel. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. – 302p.
Seminar 5 Modern Linguistic Theories
Functional linguistics:
the linguists of the Prague linguistic circle;
the main theories
Pragmatics as a fast-developing linguistic discipline
The field of psycholinguistics:
history of development;
problems under consideration;
key concepts and theories.
Sociolinguistics as a hybrid discipline
Cognitive science in the end of the XX – the beginning of the XXIc.
Reports:
The current stage in the development of pragmatics in the world
World-famous psycholinguists
The role of N. Chomsky in the development of psycholinguistics
The prospects of development of sociolinguistics
Cognitive studies: key notions and leading figures
Literature:
Амирова Т. А. Из истории лингвистики ХХ века: структурно-функциональное языкознание (истоки, направления, школы): [учеб. пособ.] / Тамара Александровна Амирова. – М.: ЧеРО, 1999. – 106 с.
Селіванова О. О. Сучасна лінгвістика: напрями та проблеми: [підручник] / Олена Олександрівна Селіванова.– Полтава: Довкілля-К, 2008. – 712 с.
Aarts B., MacMahon A. The Handbook of English Linguistics / Baa Aarts, April Macmahon. – Blackwell Publishing 815 p.
Aitchison J. Teach Yourself Linguistics / Jean Aitchison. – Lincolnwood, 1994. – 232p.
Akmaijan A. et al. Linguistics. An Introduction to Language and Communication. – Cambridge, Mass., L., 2001. – 604 p.
Dirven R., Verspoor M. Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics / Dirven Rene, Marjolijn Verspoor. – Amsterdam, Philadelphia, 2004. – 277p.
Evans V. Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction / V. Evans, M. Green. – Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. – 830 p.
Leech G. Principles of Pragmatics / Geoffrey N. Leech. – L., NY.: Longman, 1983. – 250p.
Yule G. Pragmatics / George Yule. – Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. – 138 p.
Radford A. et al. Linguistics: An Introduction / Andrew Radford and others. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. – 433 p.
Richter B. First Steps in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics / Borbala Richter. – Budapest, 2006. – 212p.
Whitaker H. Concise Encyclopedia of Brain and Language / Harry Whitaker. – Oxford, 2010. – 662p.