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AUTUMN TERM Credits: 24 Course code: Q1028 |
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Course outline
This course represents an introduction to the study of grammar, and provides students with an understanding of the way in which words, phrases and sentences are constructed. The course focuses on inflectional and derivational morphology, word classes, argument structure, constituent structure, phrase structure, grammatical functions, clause types, and main and embedded clause structure. This course equips students with the skills to parse sentences on the basis of formal and functional criteria, to construct and test hypotheses, and to represent word, phrase and sentence structure by means of explicit standard notation. The course will be based on data from English and other languages.
Achieving a Pass in this course is mandatory for progression to year 3. The course is a pre-requisite for the level-two Spring/Summer term course Grammar (Q1009), and for the level-three courses Linguistic Typology (Q1067), Historical Linguistics (Q1010) and Cognitive Linguistics (Q1069). This course may not be taken with Foundations of Grammar (Q1068).
Assessed by coursework (100%):
- weekly quiz (20%)
- two exercises (2 x 15%)
- one in-class test (50%)
Assessment weighting on final degree:
8% of your final degree classification
Reading
Core text:
Börjars, K. and K. Burridge (2001). Introducing English grammar. Arnold
Recommended as the most appropriate for the course; buying it is not compulsory, as not all material covered in the course is covered in this book. Additional reading will be recommended on a weekly basis.
Course materials
Click on the following links to see the course materials.
Please also see Study Direct for further course materials. If you need more information on Study Direct, please ask your tutor.
- Approaches to Grammar course document autumn 2008
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