Extract from course site of:

Randy Allen Harris
(U. Waterloo, CA)

English 306A, Introduction to linguistics (annually or biannually, W92 - S06)
Introduction to linguistics and the principles of linguistic analysis through an examination of English phonology, forms, syntax, and discourse.
(Full S06 syllabus here.)






Lecture materials

Please note these files were developed for lecturing only, and made available for your convenience; they were not developed for home-studying, independent of the course, and they contain many redundancies, partial explanations, enigmatic notes, and so on--the sorts of things which depend on in-class lectures to clarify.


For onscreen viewing
For printing
This list includes power-point show files (pps), which you can download and view on your own machine with MS PowerPoint (part of the MS Office suite), or with PowerPoint Viewer (available in a free download from Microsoft). You can also print them off, of course, though that's probably a waste of resources.
This list includes portable document format files (pdf), which you can download and view on your own machine with Acrobat Reader (available in a free download from Adobe). You can use these files anyway you like, but they have small images of the slides I used in class, and they are meant to help you collate your notes.

History.pps
Language.pps
IndexIconSymbol.pps
Words.pps
Morphology.pps
Syntax.pps
Phonetics.pps
Phonology.pps
Semantics.pps
Linguistic Relativity.pps
Pragmatics.pps
Text.pps

History.pdf
Language.pdf
IndexIconSymbol.pdf
Words.pdf
Morphology.pdf
Syntax.pdf
Phonetics.pdf
Phonology.pdf
Semantics.pdf
Linguistic Relativity.pdf
Pragmatics.pdf
Text.pdf