Comparative Linguistics

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Course Instructor:
Dr. Mahmoud Altarabin
 Getting started
• What is language?
• Why do we need language?
• What is linguistics?
• -ics means a body of facts, knowledge,
principles.
• Why is linguistics considered a scientific study?
 What does linguistics study?
• Phonetics:
• Phonology:
• Morphology
• Syntax
• Semantics
• Pragmatics:
Language in use and the contexts in which it is used
 Linguistics
• Applied Linguistics:
the branch of linguistics concerned with practical
applications of language studies, for example language
teaching, translation, and speech therapy.
• Historical Linguistics:
s the branch of linguistics concerned with the development of
a language or of languages over time.
• Computational Linguistics
The branch of linguistics in which the techniques of computer
science are applied to the analysis of language and speech.
Comparative linguistics:
The study of similarities and differences between languages, in
particular the comparison of related languages with a view to
reconstructing forms in their lost parent languages.
 Comparative Linguistics
• Review of sounds in Arabic and English
• Morphology
• Parts of speech and sentence types in English and Arabic
• Sentence patterns in English and Arabic
• Types of Verbs in English and Arabic
• Reported speech in English and Arabic
• Agreement in English and Arabic
• Subjects and nouns in English and Arabic
• Adjectives, relative clauses, noun clauses, adverb clauses
 Next class
• Sounds in English and Arabic