Guia docente 2010_11 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Morfosintaxe do primeiro idioma estranxeiro: Inglés

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Tema	Subtema
INTRODUCTION UNIT 1: Introduction to the linguistic study of English	1.1. Varieties of English 1.1.1 Standard and non-standard English 1.1.2 Register and dialect differences 1.2. The morphosyntactic study of English
MODULE 1: MORPHOLOGY UNIT 2: Words	2.1. Definition of word 2.2. Word classes: lexical words, function words and inserts 2.3. Lexical words: nouns, lexical verbs, adjectives, adverbs 2.4. Function words: determiners, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, adverbial particles, coordinators, subordinators 2.5. Special classes of words: wh-words, existential there, the negator not, the infinitive marker to, and numerals 2.6. The structure of words: morphology 2.6.1. Inflection. Inflections as an aspect of grammar 2.6.2. Derivation 2.6.3. Compounding 2.6.4. Multi-word lexical units 2.6.5. Conversion and back-formation 2.6.6. Other word-formation strategies
MODULE 2: SYNTAX UNIT 3: Phrases	3.1. Definition of phrase 3.2. Types of phrase and their syntactic roles 3.2.1. Noun phrases 3.2.2. Verb phrases 3.2.3. Adjective phrases 3.2.4. Adverb phrases 3.2.5. Prepositional phrases 3.2.6. Genitive phrases 3.2.7. Numeral phrases 3.3. Embedding and coordination of phrases 3.4. Tests for phrases
UNIT 4: Noun phrases	4.1. Definition and characteristics 4.2. Order of multiple premodifiers 4.3. Postmodification of noun phrases
UNIT 5: Verb phrases	5.1. Definition and characteristics: an overview of tense, aspect, voice and modality 5.2. Main and auxiliary functions of primary verbs 5.3. Copular verbs 5.4. Valency patterns for single-word lexical verbs 5.4.1. Intransitive 5.4.2. Monotransitive 5.4.3. Ditransitive 5.4.4. Complex transitive 5.4.5. Copular 5.5. Multi-word lexical verbs 5.5.1. Phrasal verbs 5.5.2. Prepositional verbs 5.5.3. Phrasal-prepositional verbs
UNIT 6: Adjective phrases and adverb phrases	6.1. Definition of adjective and adverb phrases 6.2. Characteristics of adjectives 6.3. Formation of adjectives 6.3.1. Participial adjectives (-ing and –ed forms) 6.3.2. Derived adjectives 6.3.3. Compounds 6.4. Attributive and predicative adjectives. 6.5. Adjectives in other syntactic roles 6.6. Adverbs and their formation (simple, compound, by suffixation) 6.7. Adverbs and adjectives with the same form 6.8. Syntactic roles of adverbs
UNIT 7: Clauses and sentences	7.1. Clauses 7.1.1. Major clause elements: subject (semantic roles of subjects, dummy subjects, subjects in non-finite clauses), verb, subject predicative, direct object (semantic roles of direct objects, dummy objects), indirect object, prepositional object, object predicative, adverbials. 7.1.2. Major clause patterns 7.1.3. Types of dependent clauses 7.1.3.1. Finite dependent clauses 7.1.3.1.1. Nominal clauses 7.1.3.1.2. Adverbial clauses 7.1.3.1.3. Relative clauses 7.1.3.1.4. Comparative clauses and other degree clauses 7.1.3.1.5. Reporting clauses 7.1.3.1.6. Comment clauses 7.1.3.1.7. Other peripheral clauses 7.1.3.2. Non-finite clauses 7.1.3.2.1. Infinitive clauses 7.1.3.2.2. Ing-clauses 7.1.3.2.3. Ed-clauses 7.1.3.2.4. Supplementive clauses 7.1.3.2.5. Verbless clauses 7.1.4. Major types of independent clauses 7.1.4.1. Declarative clauses 7.1.4.2. Interrogative clauses 7.1.4.3. Exclamative clauses 7.1.4.4. Imperative clauses 7.2. Simple, compound and complex sentences
UNIT 8: Word order and syntactic choices	8.1. Focus, emphasis, contrast and intensification 8.2. Fronting 8.3. Inversion of subject and verb or operator 8.4. Word-order options at the end of the clause 8.5. The passive 8.6. Existential there 8.7. Dislocation 8.8. Clefting
UNIT 9: An introduction to discourse	9.1. Discourse 9.2. Text and context 9.3. Lexical cohesion 9.4. Repetition and ellipsis 9.5. Discourse markers