Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
English Grammar |
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Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
Subject | English Grammar | Code | 613G03025 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Third | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
1. Introduction | 1.1. Course aims 1.2. Descriptive vs prescriptive approaches to the study of English 1.3. Basic mistakes to be avoided 1.4. Grammar and style |
2. Basic concepts | 2.1. Levels of analysis. The hierarchy of grammatical units 2.2. The difference between function and category 2.3. Basic terminology |
3. Description of grammatical units | 3.1 The verb phrase: types, structure, tense, aspect, mood and types of verbs. 3.2 The noun phrase: structure and elements. Gender and number. The genitive case. Pronouns. 3.3. Adverb and adjective phrases: characteristics, differences, structure and functions. 3.4. Prepositions and conjunctions |
4. Clause structure | 4.1. Types of clauses 4.1. Canonical and non-canonical clauses 4.2. Information packaging in the clause |
5. Word formation processes | 5.1 Derivation or affixation 5.2 Compounding 5.3 Conversion or zero derivation 5.4 Other processes |
6. Introduction to Corpus Linguistics | 6.1. Basics 6.2. Creation of a corpus |
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