12.5 1st year Lesley Stirling No special prerequisites. It is not necessary to know a language other than English to study Linguistics. Second semester Two lectures and a tutorial a week. Students completing first-year Linguistics subjects should:

• have a general understanding of the nature of human language;
• have begun to develop skills for describing and analyzing languages;
• have gained a conceptual framework for thinking about and discussing language.

Syntax, semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, and historical linguistics; selected topics in applied linguistics. Regular problem-solving exercises and a 2000-word essay, totalling 4,000 words. Finegan and Besnier Language, Its Structure and Use.