ENGLISH SYNTAX (GRADO LENGUA Y LITERATURA INGLESAS)
(Prof. Marciano Escutia. Office hours: M, T: 17-18; Th, F: 15.30-16.30. Room A-330.2. Also by appointment)
Tel.: 913945382; Email: internal email CV (also, only for use if problem with the other, [email protected])
TEXTBOOKS:
•3 files in Campus Virtual. The three files are also printed out in one folder in the photocopy basement room.
•Textbook: Aarts, B. (2001, 2009). English Syntax and Argumentation. Basingstok: Palgrave (BA)
EVALUATION:
- Final exam: 50%.
- Class attendance and participation (exercice realization): 25%.
- Midterm: 25%
SYLLABUS:
1. Introduction: syntax and grammar.
1.1..Mental grammar, Descriptive grammar and Prescriptive grammar.
1.2..Grammaticality and Ambiguity.
1.3..Morpho-syntax: word analysis and types of morphemes.
1.1. Units and the rank-scale.
1.2. Classes of units.
1.3. The concept of unit structure.
2. The structure of the phrase (BA: chp 3)
2.1. The Nominal Phrase: determiners and modifiers.
2.2. The Adjectival Phrase: modifiers.
2.3. The Adverbial Phrase: modifiers.
2.4. The Verbal Phrase & Verbal Group: auxiliaries.
2.5. The Prepositional Phrase: modifier and completive.
2.6. Ellipsis and Pro-forms.
3. The structure of the Clause (BA: chp 2, 4, 6)
3.1. Introduction: Deep and surface structure. Complements, Objects and Adjuncts.
3.2. Argument structure: semantic roles and syntactic functions.
3.3. The Subject.
3.4. The Predicator.
3.5. The Objects: Direct, Indirect, Prepositional.
3.6. The Complements: Subject, Object and Predicator Complements. Small Clause
3.7. Optional elements of the clause: Adjunct, Disjunct and Conjunct.
3.8. Types of lexical verbs according to their complements.
3.9. Internal structure of the phrase.
4. The Expansion of Linguistic Units (BA: chp 5).
4.1. Coordination.
4.2. Subordination.
4.3. Embedding.
REFERENCE BOOKS
Aarts, F. and Arts, J. (1984). English Syntactic Structures. Oxford: Pergamon.
Aarts, B. (2001, 2009). English Syntax and Argumentation. Basingstok: Palgrave.
Downing, A. and Locke, P. (1992, 2002). A University Course in English Grammar.London:
Prentice Hall.
Huddleston, R. and Pullum, G. K. (2005). A Student’s Introduction to English
Grammar. Cambridge: C. U. P.
Thomas, L. (1993). Beginning Syntax. Oxford: Blackwell.