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Vocabulary, Semantics and Language Education

Author: Evelyn Hatch, Cheryl Brown

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG308

Topics: Vocabulary, Semantics, Language Education, semantic features, semantic feature analysis, semantic field analysis, core meanings, prototype theory, script semantics, conceptual structure, lexicon, word building, word classification, morphology, derivations, morphemes, inflectional morphology, vocabulary choice, vocabulary learning, vocabulary teaching

Semantics ,Volume 2

Author: John Lyons

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG304

Topics: Semantics, grammar, lexicon, lexemes, context, style, culture, Deixis, mood, illocutionary force, modality

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language ,3rd edition

Author: David Crystal

School: University of Ibadan

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG409

Topics: History of English, Old English, middle English, early modern English, Modern English, World English, English vocabulary, Lexicon, etymology, lexical dimensions, English grammar, grammatical mythology, structure of words, word classes, structure of sentences, spoken English, written English, using English

Legal Discourse Studies in Linguistics, Rhetoric and Legal Analysis

Author: Peter Goodrich

School: University of Ilorin

Department: Law

Course Code: JIL101

Topics: legal faith, law as code, Legal Language, public speech, legal argument, discourse analysis, discourse, discursive process, discursive formation, institutionalisation, interdiscourse, ideology, intradiscourse, legal discourse, legal intradiscourse, lexicon, syntax, legal interdiscourse, semantic appropiation, legal theory, legal practice

Linguistics An Introduction,Second edition

Author: Andrew Radford, Martin Atkinson, David Britain, Harald Clahsen, Andrew Spencer

School: University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: LIN141, LIN142

Topics: Developmental linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Sounds, suprasegmentals, Consonants, vowels, Sound variation, Stylistic variation, Sound change, Consonant change, Vowel change, Suprasegmental change, Phonemes, syllables, phonological processes, Syllabification, Maximal Onset Principle, Phonological features, Child phonology, Processing sounds, Speech perception, Speech production.phonological processing, Word classes, words, Lexical categories, English verbs, Building words, Morphemes, Morphological processes, derivation, inflection, Compounds, Clitics, Allomorphy, agglutinative ideal, morphological operations, Word meaning, Entailment, hyponymy, Early words, Lexical processing, mental lexicon, Lexical disorders, aphasia, Agrammatism, Paraphasias, Lexical variation, Lexical change, Borrowing words, Sentences, Complex sentences, Sentence structure, Empty T constituent, Covert complements, Empty complementisers, Empty determiners, Yes–no questions, Syntactic variation, Children’s sentences, Sentence processing, Null Subject Parameter, Children’s nominals, Presuppositions, Relevance Theory, Context, coherence, Syntactic disorders, Agrammatism, Paragrammatism, Specific Language Impairment

Morphological Theory

Author: Andrew Spencer

School: University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: LIN245

Topics: Word structure, morphology, Morphemes, morphs, allomorphy, morphological operation, Inflection, derivation, Morphological formatives, morphosyntax, Morphological typology, lexicon, Structuralist theories, Morphophonemics, Phonology, Lexicalism, Lexicalist Grammar, Halle's Prolegomena, Siegel's Level Ordering Hypothesis, Aronoff's Word Formation, Generative Grammar, morphology-phonology interface, SPE model, Natural Generative Phonology, Lexical Phonology, Kiparsky's Alternation Condition, Cyclic Phonology, Lexical Phonology, Zwicky's Shape Conditions, McCarthy's theory, Reduplication, Argument structure, Syntactic affixation, Template morphology, Paradigm Economy, Grammatical relations, Marantz's theory, Affix-mediated alternations, Morphological merger, applied verbs, Baker's incorporation theory, Valency alternations, Williams's theory, adjectival passives, Compounds, Root compounds, Syntactic approaches, Clitics, Cliticization, agreement, Bracketing paradoxes, Sproat's Mapping Principle, paradigmatic word formation, Separation Hypothesis, Autolexical syntax, Post -syntactic compounding, Parallel Morphology

Introduction to Syntactic Models

Author: BA Okolo

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG221

Topics: Syntactic Models, language structure, English syntax, syntax analysis, Traditional Grammar, Traditional Grammar critique, Finite State Grammar, Phrase Structure Grammar, lexicon, phonology, syntax, semantics, Syntactic Component, Syntactic Rules, Parts of Speech, parsing, Concatenation, words, words relationship

English Morphology

Author: Harrison Adeniyi

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG226

Topics: English Morphology, English Plural Morpheme, Past Tense Morpheme, Phonology, Syntax, Lexis, Morphological Parsing, Lexicon, Morphological Processes, Clipping, Affixation, Borrowing, Blending, Stress shift, Conversion, Compounding, Back-Formation, Coinage, Acronym Reduplication, Nominalization, Free Morpheme, Bound Morpheme, Inflectional Bound Morpheme, Derivational Bound Morpheme, word, group, clause, sentence, word classes, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, Interjections, Exclamations, Morpho-syntactic Agreement nature, Morpholexical Operations, Morpho-syntactic Operations, Lexical Types

Introduction to Semantics

Author: Charles Ogbulogo

School: National Open University of Nigeria

Department: Arts and Humanities

Course Code: ENG331

Topics: Semantics, theories, of meaning, nature of the lexicon, Sentential Meaning aspects, pragmatics, logic, fallacies, Application of Semantics to Literary Communication, Transitional Semantics, Behavioral Semantics, Structural Semantics, Generative Semantics, synonym, antonym, hyponym, homonym, polysemy, Subcategorising English Words, Paraphrase, Ambiguity, Vagueness, Tautology, Presupposition, Entailment, Analyticity, Misinterpretation Fallacies, Misunderstanding of Language fallacies, Fallacies of Accident, Question Begging Fallacies, complex question, False Causal Relationship, irrelevant conclusion, Argumentative Leap, Simple Proposition, Conjunction, Disjunction

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