M.A. (Anthropological Linguistics and Punjabi Language)

M.A. (Anthropological Linguistics and Punjabi Language)

SYLLABUS

M.A. (ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS AND PUNJABI LANGUAGE)

FOR PRIVATE STUDENTS

PART-I (SEMESTER FIRST AND SECOND)

FOR 2016-17 & 2017-18 SESSIONS

Semester-I

  1. Phonetics
  2. Syntax-I
  3. Language Technology-I
  4. Semiotics & Semiotics of Punjabi Culture.

Semester-II

  1. Phonology-I
  2. Morphology
  3. Dialectology and Punjabi Dialects
  4. Language Technology-II

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Paper-I: Phonetics

Total Marks : 100

Time: 3 hours

Pass Marks : 35%

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER SETTER

  1. Each question paper will consist of three sections A, B, and C. Section A and B will contain four questions each. The candidate will attempt two questions from each section. Each question carries 15 marks from section A and 15 marks from section B. Section C will consist of ten (10) short answer type/objective type compulsory questions covering the entire syllabus. Each question will carry four (4) marks.
  1. In case there are parts, in a question, separate marks for each part should be indicated in the question paper.
  1. The paper setter should use simple and precise language while setting the question paper and should avoid the ambiguous Punjabi vocabulary. The Standard English translation of Punjabi vocabulary should be given in brackets wherever required.
  1. The question paper should be set strictly as per given syllabus.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES

  1. Candidates are required to attempt two questions from the sections A and B each and the entire Section C is compulsory.
  1. Candidates can attempt the questions in Punjabi, Hindi or English language.

SECTION-A

Physiological Phonetics: Organs of Speech, Major Airstream Mechanisms, Articulatory Phonetics: Speech Sounds, Classification and Description of Speech Sounds, Consonants and Vowels, Contoids and Vocoids, Acoustics of Sound.

The Syllable: Segments of Syllable; Syllabic and Non Syllabic Sounds, Syllabic Structure of Punjabi.

SECTION-B

Accent, Tone, Intonation, Combinatory Phonetics: Assimilation, Dissimilation, Inversion, Metathesis, Haplology, Sandhi.

Principles of the I.P.A.; Transcription of Punjabi Material into I.P.A., I.P.A. and Gurumukhi Orthography.

SECTION-C

The section C will have ten (10) short-answer type/objective questions covering the entire syllabus i.e., Section A & Section B. All the ten questions will be compulsory. Each question will carry 4 marks.

READINGS
1. / Malmberg, B., 1963 / : / Phonetics, Dove Publication, New York.
2. / O'Cornor, J.D., 1974 / : / Phonetics, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth.
3. / Martinet, A., 1973 / : / Function and Segmentation in Prosody, Pakha
Sanjam, vol. VI.
4. / Gill, H.S. and Gleason / : / A Reference Grammar of Punjabi,
H.A. Jr., 1969 / Punjabi University, Patiala.
5. / Gill, H.S., 1960 / : / Punjabi Tonemics, Anthropological Linguistics, 2
No. 6.

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6. / Joshi, S.S., 1973 / : / Pitch and Related Phenomena in Punjabi, Pakha
Sanjam, Vol. VI.
7. / Palmer, F.R., (ed.) 1970 / : / Prosodic Analysis, OUP, London.
8. / International Phonetic / : / Principles of the International Phonetic
Association, 1949 / Association, London
9. / Lever, J. 1994 / : / Principles of Phonetics, CUP.
10. / Khaira, B.S., 1998 / : / ਨਵੀਨ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਵਵਵਿਆਨ, Pepsu Book Depot, Patiala
11. / Dhaliwal, Prem Parkash / : / Sidhaatank Bhaasha – Vigiyan (vol.1),
Singh, (Dr.), (1989) / Punjabi Prakaashan, Chandigarh.
12. / Sangha, S. S., 1997 : gzikph Gk;ak ftfrnkB,gzikph Gk;ak^nekdwh,ibzXo
13. / Sidhu, Paramjit Singh, 1983 : / Manav Vigyanik Bhasha Vigyan (Punjabi),
Publication Bureau Punjabi University, Patiala
14. Brar, Buta Singh, 2008 / : / gzikph ftnkeoBL f;XKs s/ ftjko, u/sBk gqek;aB, b[fXnkDk

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PAPER-II : SYNTAX-I

Total Marks : 100

Time: 3 hours

Pass Marks :35%

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER SETTER

  1. Each question paper will consist of three sections A, B, and C. Section A and B will contain four questions each. The candidate will attempt two questions from each section. Each question carries 15 marks from section A and 15 marks from section B. Section C will consist of ten (10)short answer type/objective type compulsory questions covering the entire syllabus. Each question will carry four (4) marks.
  1. In case there are parts, in a question, separate marks for each part should be indicated in the question paper.
  1. The paper setter should use simple and precise language while setting the question paper and should avoid the ambiguous Punjabi vocabulary. The Standard English translation of Punjabi vocabulary should be given in brackets wherever required.
  1. The question paper should be set strictly as per given syllabus.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES

  1. Candidates are required to attempt two questions from the sections A and B each and the entire Section C is compulsory.
  1. Candidates can attempt the questions in Punjabi, Hindi or English language.

SECTION-A

Syntax: The Science of Sentence Structure-Defining Sentence-Determining Constituency-Immediate Constituent Analysis-Traditional, Structuralists and Transformational Models.

Structural Categories: Morpheme, Word, Phrase, Clause, Sentence-X-Bar and Feature Syntax, The X-Bar Structure of Sentence.

SECTION-B

Grammatical Categories: Gender, Number, Person, Tense, Aspect, Mood and Case-Functional Categories: Subject, Object, Predicate, Complement and Adjunct.

Syntactic Relations: Karakaas and Vibhaktis, Post-positions and Conjunctions- Concord and Government-Word Order.

SECTION-C

The section C will have ten (10) short-answer type/objective questions covering the entire syllabus i.e., Section A & Section B. All the ten questions will be compulsory. Each question will carry 4 marks.

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READINGS
1. / Brar, B.S., 2008 / : / : gzikph ftnkeoB : f;XKs s/ ftjko u/sBk gqekPB
b[fXnkDk
2. / Brown, E.K., and / :Syntax : A Linguistic Introduction to Sentence
J.E. Miller, 1980 / Structure, London: Hutchinson.
3. / Hockett, C.F., 1958 / :A Course in Modern Linguistics,
New Delhi: Oxford & IBH.
4. / Lyons, J., 1968 / :Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics,
Cambridge University, Press.
5. / Palmer, F.R., 1971 / : / Grammar, Penguin Books.

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6. / Radford, A., 1981 / : / Transformation Syntax. C.U.P.
7. / Radford, A., 1981 / : / Transformational Grammar, C.U.P.
8. / Smith, N. / : / Modern Linguistics : The Results of Chomoskyan
D.Wilson, 1979 / Revolution, Penguin Books.
9. / Puar, Joginder Singh / : / Bhaasha-Vigyan : Sankalp Ate Dishaavan,
(Dr.), 1988 / (ed.), Punjabi Bhasha Academy, Jalandhar.
10. / Kamboj Chanchal Singh, / : / ekoe ;zpzX ns/ gzikph ftZu T[BQK d/ gqrNk dh ;wZf;nk,
1983
11. / Duni, Chandra, 1964 / : / Punjabi Vyakaran, Panjab University, Chandigarh
12. / y'i gfsqek nze 41 / : / GkPk ns/ ftnkeoD, gzikph ;kfjs nfXn?B ftGkr,
gzikph :{Bhtof;Nh, gfNnkbk
.

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PAPER-III: Language Technology-I

Total Marks : 100

Time: 3 hours

Pass Marks :35%

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER SETTER

  1. Each question paper will consist of three sections A, B, and C. Section A and B will contain four questions each. The candidate will attempt two questions from each section. Each question carries 15 marks from section A and 15 marks from section B. Section C will consist of ten (10)short answer type/objective type compulsory questions covering the entire syllabus. Each question will carry two (4) marks.
  1. In case there are parts, in a question, separate marks for each part should be indicated in the question paper.
  1. The paper setter should use simple and precise language while setting the question paper and should avoid the ambiguous Punjabi vocabulary. The Standard English translation of Punjabi vocabulary should be given in brackets wherever required.
  1. The question paper should be set strictly as per given syllabus.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES

  1. Candidates are required to attempt two questions from the sections A and B each and the entire Section C is compulsory.
  1. Candidates can attempt the questions in Punjabi, Hindi or English language.

Section- A

An Introduction to Computers - MS Word-Basic Operation: Formatting Of Document, Copying And Moving Text, Paragraph Formatting and Printing, MS-Power Point: Creating and Editing a Slide Presentation, Working with Graphical and Multimedia Elements, Creating Charts and Tables. Internet Surfing, E-mail, Basics of Browsers.

Introduction to Character Encoding, Punjabi Fonts & Various Typing Techniques: ASCII & Unicode System. Introduction to Unicode System Benefits to Working With Unicode System; To make the Computer Unicode Compatible; Downloading and Installing Unicode Based Keyboard Drivers; Unicode Fonts & Typing.

Language and Dialect: The Notion of Dialect and Idiolect; Major Dialects of Punjabi; Majhi, Doabi, Malwai, Puadhi, The Distinctive Features of Various Dialects with Special Reference to Tones. Language & Script.

Section- B

Information Retrieval: Architecture, Introduction to Various Indexing Techniques for Textual Information Items like Inverted Indices: Construction, Steps, Tokenization: Parsing a Document, Format/Language Striping, Language Issues, Stemming, Lemmatization and Stop Words, Comparison of Stemmers.

Text Mining: Introduction to Categorization- Extraction Based Categorization, Clustering: Hierarchical Clustering. Document Classification and Routing, Finding and Answering from Text Search, Text Summarization.

SECTION-C

The section C will have ten (10)short-answer type/objective questions covering the entire syllabus. i.e., Section A & Section B. All the ten questions will be compulsory. Each question will carry 4 marks.

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READINGS

1. / Saxena Sanjay, 2013 / : / Introduction to Information Technology, Vikas
Publication House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
2. / Peter Dyson, 1994 / : / The PC User’s Pocket Dictionary, BPB Publications, New
Delhi.
3. / Gazdar, G. and / : / Natural Language Processing in Prolog. Massachusetts:
Mellish, C.S. 1989 / Addisonweslay.
4. / Grishman.R.1980 / : / Computational Linguistics: An Introduction, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
5. / Colin Beardon, David : / Natural Language and Computational Linguistics: An
Lumsden & Geoff / Introduction. Ellis Horwood, Ltd.
Holmer, 1991
6. / Richard Sproat, 2000 : / A Computational Theory of Writing System, Cambridge
University Press.
7. / ਜ?s/r f;zx,2014 / : / ezfgT{No: ;zouBk ns/ fttjkfoe tos'A,wdkB gpfbfPzr
jkT{;,gfNnkbk
8. / junyjw, jgmohn / : / kMipaUtr mu`FlI jwxkwrI Aqy aupXog, pblIkySn ibaUro,
isMG 2008 / pMjwbI XUnIvristI, pitAwlw
9. / Christopher D. Manning: / Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge
Prabhakar Raghavan / University Press.
Hinrich Schütze, 2008
10. / Martin Wynne 2005. / : / Developing Linguistic Corpora: A Guide to Good
Practice, Oxford: Oxbow Books
11. / Michael W. Berry, / : / Survey of Text Mining: Clustering, Classification and
2003. / Retrieval, Springer Verlag.
12. / Gerald J. Kowalski & / : / Information storage and Retrieval Systems, Kluwer
Mark T.Maybury 2000 / Academic Publishers.
13. / Dash, Niladari Sekhar / : / Language / Corpora / and / Applied / Linguistics,
2007 / Kolkata: Sahitya Samsad
14. / Dash,Niladari Sekhar / : / Linguistics and Language Technology : With
2005 / Reference of Indian Languages, New Delhi,
Mittal Publications
15. / Dash, Niladari Sekhar / : / Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction, New Delhi,
2008 / Pearson Education, Longman
16. / Dash, Niladari Sekhar / : / Corpus Generation and Text Processing,
2002 / International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics.
17. / Dash,Niladari Sekhar / : / Language Corpora : Past, Present and Future,
2009 / New Delhi, Mittal Publications.

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PAPER-IV: SEMIOTICS AND SEMIOTICS OF PUNJABI CULTURE

Total Marks : 100 Time: 3 hours Written Examination Marks :75

Pass Marks : 35%

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER SETTER

  1. Each question paper will consist of three sections A, B, and C. Section A and B will contain four questions each. The candidate will attempt two questions from each section. Each question carries 15 marks from section A and 15 marks from section B. Section C will consist of ten (10)short answer type/objective type compulsory questions covering the entire syllabus. Each question will carry two (4) marks.
  1. In case there are parts, in a question, separate marks for each part should be indicated in the question paper.
  1. The paper setter should use simple and precise language while setting the question paper and should avoid the ambiguous Punjabi vocabulary. The Standard English translation of Punjabi vocabulary should be given in brackets wherever required.
  1. The question paper should be set strictly as per given syllabus.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES

  1. Candidates are required to attempt two questions from the sections A and B each and the entire Section C is compulsory.
  1. Candidates can attempt the questions in Punjabi, Hindi or English language.

SECTION-A

Man and his Languages. Sciences of Man and Sciences of Nature. The Place of Language in Human facts. Cosmological Semiotics & Anthropological Semiotics.

Saussure's Concept of Language, Nature of Linguistic Sign. The Signifier and Signified. Langue & Parole. Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Relations. Synchronic & Diachronic Perspectives of Language.

SECTION-B

Semiotics of Folklore and Culture; Rites of Passage in Punjabi Society, Birth, Marriage, Death Ceremonies, Fairs & Festivals of Punjab, Folk Tales, Folk Songs, Folk Dances, Folk Games, Folk Medicines and Folk Art of Punjab.

SECTION-C

The section C will have ten (10)short-answer type/objective questions covering the entire syllabus.

READINGS
1. / Claude Levi-Strauss (1968) / : / Structural Anthropology, Penguin Books,
London.
2. / Roland Barthes (1968) / : / Elements of Semiology, Beacon, Boston.
3. / H.S. Gill (1976) / : / Parole and Langue (Studies in French
Structuralism), Punjabi University, Patiala.
4. / Jean-Paul Sartre (1963) / : / Search for Method, Methuen, London.
5. / Jonathan Cullar (1976) / : / Saussure, Fontana.
6. / Saussure (1960) / : / Course in General Linguistics, Trans. by
Wale Baskin, Peter Owen, 1960 (1916).
7. / Edmund Leach (1968) / : / Structural Study of Myth and Totemism
by Tavistock Publications

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SEMESTER-II
PAPER-V: PHONOLOGY-I
Total Marks : / 100
Time: 3 hours
Pass Marks : / 35%
  1. Each question paper will consist of three sections A, B, and C. Section A and B will contain four questions each. The candidate will attempt two questions from each section. Each question carries 11½ marks from section A and 11 marks from section B. Section C will consist of ten (10)short answer type/objective type compulsory questions covering the entire syllabus. Each question will carry two (2) marks.
  1. In case there are parts, in a question, separate marks for each part should be indicated in the question paper.
  1. The paper setter should use simple and precise language while setting the question paper and should avoid the ambiguous Punjabi vocabulary. The Standard English translation of Punjabi vocabulary should be given in brackets wherever required.
  1. The question paper should be set strictly as per given syllabus.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES

  1. Candidates are required to attempt two questions from the sections A and B each and the entire Section C is compulsory.
  1. Candidates can attempt the questions in Punjabi, Hindi or English language.

SECTION-A

Introduction to Structural Phonology, Phonetics and Phonology, Phonemics and Phonology, Concepts of Opposition, Contrast, Neutralisation, Functional Load, Structural Economy, Sanjam.

The Phoneme: Definitions, Allophones, Phonemic Principle. Prosodic Phonology, Prosodic and Phonematic Units.

SECTION-B

The Phonological Hierarchy: From Prime to Utterance.

The Phonology of Punjabi : Consonants, Vowels, Tones and Intonation.

The Phonology of Punjabi as Compared to that of Other Modern Indo-Aryan Languages. Phonology and Eastern and Western Punjabi Dialects.

SECTION-C

The section C will have ten (10)short-answer type/objective questions covering the entire syllabus. the entire syllabus i.e, Section A & B . All the ten question will be compulsory. Each Question will carry 4 marks

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READINGS
1. / Martinet,A., 1964 / : / Elements of General Linguistics, Faber and Faber Ltd.,
London.
2. / Martinet, A., 1973 / : / Function and Segmentation in Prosody, Pakha Sanjam,
Vol. VI.
3. / Gill, H.S. and / : / A Reference Grammar of Punjabi,
Gleason H.A. Jr. 1969 / Punjabi University, Patiala.
4. / Joshi, S.S., 1973 / : / Pitch and Related Phenomena in Punjabi, Pakha Sanjam,
Vol. VI.
5. / Hockett, C.F., 1958 / : / A Course in Modern Linguistics, Oxford and IBH, New
Delhi.
6. / Robins, R.H., 1968 / : / General Linguistics: An Introduction, CUP.
7. / Khaira, B.S., 1998 / : / ਨਵੀਨ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ftfrnkB, Pepsu Book Depot, Patiala
8. / Sangha, S.S, 1997 / : / gzikph GkPk ftfrnkB, gzikph GkPk- nekdwh, ibzXo
9. / Brar, Buta Singh, / : / gzikph ftnkeoD: f;zXKs d/ ftjkoਚੇਤਨਾ ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼ਨ,ਲੁਧਿਆਣਾ
2008

PAPER-VI: MORPHOLOGY

Total Marks : 100

Time: 3 hours

Pass Marks: 35%

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER SETTER

  1. Each question paper will consist of three sections A, B, and C. Section A and B will contain four questions each. The candidate will attempt two questions from each section. Each question carries 11½ marks from section A and 11 marks from section B. Section C will consist of ten (10)short answer type/objective type compulsory questions covering the entire syllabus. Each question will carry two (2) marks.
  1. In case there are parts, in a question, separate marks for each part should be indicated in the question paper.
  1. The paper setter should use simple and precise language while setting the question paper and should avoid the ambiguous Punjabi vocabulary. The Standard English translation of Punjabi vocabulary should be given in brackets wherever required.
  1. The question paper should be set strictly as per given syllabus.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES

  1. Candidates are required to attempt two questions from the sections A and B each and the entire Section C is compulsory.
  1. Candidates can attempt the questions in Punjabi, Hindi or English language.

SECTION-A

Morphology: The Science of Word-Structure, Morpheme: Definition and Types, Identification of Morphemes.

Phonetic, Syntactic and Lexical Words, Inflectional and Derivational Words, Simple, Complex, Compound and Idiomatic Words.

SECTION-B

Word Classes, Criteria for Determination of Word Classes, Major Word Classes and their Properties.

Problems in Morphological Analysis, Zero Derivation, Unmarked Forms and Discontinuous Morphemes, Models of Morphological Analysis: Item and Arrangement, Item and Process, Word and Paradigm.

SECTION-C

The section C will have ten (10) short-answer type/objective questions covering the entire syllabus. The entire syllabus i.e, Section A & B. All the ten question will be compulsory. Each Question will carry 4 marks

READINGS
1. / Diemer, Akmajian and / : / Linguistics: An Introduction to the Science
Harnish, 1986 / of Communication
2. / Fromkin, V.(ed.), 2000 / : / An Introduction to Linguistics, Oxford: Blackwell.
3. / Gleason, H.A., 1968 / : / An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich
4. / Hockett, C.F., 1954 / : / Three Models of Grammatical Description in M.
Joos, Readings in Linguistics
5. / Mathews, P.H. 1972 / : / Morphology, Cambridge: CUP.
6. / Palmer, F.R., 1971 / : / Grammar, Penguins.
7. / Spencer,A., 1991 / : / Morphological Theory, Oxford : Blackwell.

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PAPER-VII : DIALECTOLOGY AND PUNJABI DIALECTS

Total Marks :

Pass Marks : 35%

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PAPER SETTER

  1. Each question paper will consist of three sections A, B, and C. Section A and B will contain four questions each. The candidate will attempt two questions from each section. Each question carries 11½ marks from section A and 11 marks from section B. Section C will consist of ten (10)short answer type/objective type compulsory questions covering the entire syllabus. Each question will carry two (2) marks.
  1. In case there are parts, in a question, separate marks for each part should be indicated in the question paper.
  1. The paper setter should use simple and precise language while setting the question paper and should avoid the ambiguous Punjabi vocabulary. The Standard English translation of Punjabi vocabulary should be given in brackets wherever required.
  1. The question paper should be set strictly as per given syllabus.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES

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