Dr. Tach Deth
Year I, Semester II
Firstly, students define the field of linguistic investigation and examine the sociolinguistic background on which the study of the Khmer language has been based since national independence. Students then examine the definition of linguistics as a study of language through variations in natural languages; explore various fields in the study of human language; examine grammar and lexicography as a means of linguistic normalization in Cambodia; learn how to collect data; how to pose a theoretical problem on the basis of data; how to analyze data, including through distributional analysis; the differences between sentences and utterances; contexts; and finally, what is a ‘marker’.