Introduction to Linguistics

Introduction to Linguistics is a foundation course envisioned for both future language service providers, translators, or language teachers and general audience genuinely interested in the way language works. Within this course, students will get some insights into the history of the study of language, learn about the branches and sub-branches of linguistics, develop awareness of the main linguistic concepts and learn how to conduct the elementary analysis of linguistics structures at various levels of language organization: phonetic, morphological, lexical, syntactic and textual. This course will provide students with the necessary theoretical knowledge for analyzing, describing and using language being aware of the internal mechanisms that underlie this most complicated, sophisticated and enigmatic mode of human communication.

The course has been created within the framework of the European Social fund project No. 8.2.3.0/18/A/012 “Rīgas Tehniskās universitātes efektīvas pārvaldības attīstība”