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Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
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  English Studies
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1: An overview of grammatical units and revision of non-canonical constructions in English
1.1. Sentence, clause, phrase and word
1.2. Category vs function
1.3. Rankscale and rankshift
1.4. Constituent structure
1.5. Canonical vs. Non-canonical constructions: revision
2. The verb phrase
2.1. Complementation patterns
2.2. Adjuncts vs. complements
2.3. Semantic and syntactic ambiguity
3. The noun phrase

3.1. The structure of the noun phrase
3.2. Modification and complementation within NP
3.3. Semantic and syntactic ambiguity
4. The adjective and the adverb phrase 4.1. Characteristics of adjectives and adverbs
4.2. Position of adjectives
4.2. The structure and function of adjective phrases and adverb phrases

5. The simple sentence 5.1. Syntactic analysis of simple sentences
6. Subordination 6.1. Content clauses
6.2. Relative clauses
6.3. Adverbial clauses
6.4. Non-finite clauses
7. Discourse: text and context 7.1. Genre and register
7.2. Information processing and structure
7.3. Using corpus analysis
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