Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
Subject | English Studies | Code | 613G03039 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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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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