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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| English Studies |
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| Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
| 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. Basic concepts |
1.1. Category vs. Function 1.2. Sentence, clause and phrase 1.3. Rankscale and rankshift 1.4 Canonical vs. Non-canonical constructions 1.5. Constituent structure |
| 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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