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| UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE LINGUISTIC STUDY OF ENGLISH (week 1) |
1.1. The morphosyntactic study of English
1.2. Language variation: Registers, dialects, standard and vernacular English
1.3. Descriptive and prescriptive approaches to grammar
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| UNIT 2: AN OVERVIEW OF GRAMMATICAL UNITS: DIFFERENCES FROM TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR (week 1-3) |
2.1. Sentence, clause, phrase and word
2.2. Category vs function
2.3. Word and lexeme categories: the parts of speech
2.4. Survey of lexical words and function words
2.5. The structure of phrases
2.6. Canonical and non-canonical clauses
2.7. Structure of words: Inflection vs derivation
2.8. Word-formation processes
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| UNIT 3: THE VERB PHRASE (week 4) |
3.1. The verb phrase
3.2. Finite vs non-finite verbs
3.3. Auxiliary vs lexical verbs
3.4. An overview of tense, aspect, voice and modality
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| UNIT 4: CLAUSE STRUCTURE (week 5-6) |
4.1. Introduction
4.2. The subject
4.3. The object
4.4. Predicative complements
4.5. Types of clause structures
4.6. Multi-word lexical verbs: Phrasal, prepositional and phrasal-prepositional verbs
4.7. Adjuncts
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| UNIT 5: THE NOUN PHRASE (week 7-8) |
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Determiners
5.3. Complements
5.4. Internal and external modifiers
5.5. Pronouns
5.6. Genitive case
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UNIT 6: THE ADJECTIVE AND THE ADVERB PHRASE (week 9) |
6.1. Characteristics of adjectives
6.2. The structure and function of adjective phrases
6.3. Characteristics of adverbs
6.4. The structure and function of adverb phrases
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UNIT 7: THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE (week 10)
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7.1. The structure of prepositional phrases
7.2. Preposition stranding
7.3. PP complements in clause structure
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| UNIT 8: SUBORDINATION AND CONTENT CLAUSES (week 11-12) |
8.1. Subordinate clauses
8.2. Clause type in content clauses
8.3. Declarative content clauses
8.4. Interrogative content clauses
8.5. Exclamative content clauses
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| UNIT 9: RELATIVE CLAUSES (week 13) |
9.1. The function of relative clauses
9.2. Integrated vs supplementary relatives
9.3. Relative words in integrated vs supplementary relative clauses
9.4. Fused relatives
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| UNIT 10: NON-FINITE CLAUSES (week 14) |
10.1 Four kinds of non-finite clause
10.2 The form of non-finite clauses
10.3. The functions of non-finite clauses
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| UNIT 11. INFORMATION PACKAGING IN THE CLAUSE (week 15-16) |
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Passive clauses
11.3. Extraposition
11.4. Existential clauses
11.5. The it-cleft construction
11.6. Pseudo-clefts
11.7. Dislocation
11.8. Preposing and postposing
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