Educational guide 2015_16
Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución
Grado en Lenguas Extranjeras
 Asignaturas
  Morfosintaxis del primer idioma extranjero: Inglés
   Contenidos
Tema Subtema
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
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
UNIT 4: CLAUSE STRUCTURE (week 6-7) 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
UNIT 5: THE VERB PHRASE (week 8) 5.1. The verb phrase
5.2. Finite vs non-finite verbs
5.3. Auxiliary vs lexical verbs
5.4. An overview of tense, aspect, voice and modality
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
UNIT 7: THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE (week 10) 7.1. The structure of prepositional phrases
7.2. Preposition stranding
7.3. PP complements in clause structure
UNIT 3: THE NOUN PHRASE (week 4-5) 3.1. Introduction
3.2. Determiners
3.3. Complements
3.4. Internal and external modifiers
3.5. Pronouns
3.6. Genitive case
UNIT 8: SUBORDINATION AND CONTENT
CLAUSES (week 11)
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
UNIT 9: RELATIVE CLAUSES (week 12) 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
UNIT 10: NON-FINITE CLAUSES (week 13-14) 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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