This video might help but you should read the book

 

Chapter Six

 After reading the chapter, I expect you to understand the following concepts:

1. Morpheme: free, bound, inflectional and derivational with examples
2. Types of dictionaries
3. One example of componential analysis
4. Synonymy vs. antonymy vs. hyponymy
5. Abbreviation vs. Acronyms
6. You should cover all aspects of Deixis in detail

 

محاور الامتحان الشامل 2016

     

Jadara University

Department of English Language and Literature

Comprehensive Exam 2016

Major subject areas for the comprehensive exam 2016:

A.  Linguistics

1.      Advanced Grammar

Qurik, R. & Geenbaum, S. (1973). A University Grammar of English. Harlow: Longman.

2.      General Linguistics

Mayer, C. (2009). Introducing English Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP.

3.      Phonology

Roach, P. (2009). English Phonetics and Phonology: A practical Course (4^th Edition). Cambridge: CUP.

4.      Applied Linguistics

Lightbown, P. & Spada, N. (2013). How Languages are Learned (4^th Edition). Oxford: OUP.

Ps. There will be six questions from all or any of the fields above and you will be asked to answer only three

                  B. Literature

1.      16^th Century British Poems or Plays

2.      19^th Century American Novels

3.      Modern Literary Theory

References for B:

The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Volumes 1 and 2 (8^th Edition)

The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Volumes 1 and 2 (8^th Edition)

Hans Berton. Literary Theory

Terry Eagleton. Literary Theory: An Introduction

Ps. There will be six questions from all or any of the fields above and you will be asked to answer only three.

For students of General Linguistics 2016

In chapter five, you should be able to recognize and discuss the following terms:

1. Sentence vs. clause vs. phrase vs. word
2. Subject vs. predicate
3. NP vs. VP
4. Count vs. non-count
5. Plurals: regular, archaic, borrowed, same form, no-singular
6. Personal pronouns in English: person, subjunctive, objective, reflexive, possessive, indefinite
7. Lexical, auxiliary and modal verbs
8. Open classes vs. closed classes
9. Aspect in English
10. Main vs. subordinate clauses