Educational guide 2015_16 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Morphosyntax of the first foreign language: English

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
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: (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 3: CLAUSE STRUCTURE (week 4-6)	3.1. Introduction 3.2. The subject 3.3. The object 3.4. Predicative complements 3.5. Types of clause structures 3.6. Multi-word lexical verbs: Phrasal, prepositional and phrasal-prepositional verbs 3.7. Adjuncts
UNIT 4: THE VERB PHRASE (week 7)	4.1. The verb phrase 4.2. Finite vs non-finite verbs 4.3. Auxiliary vs lexical verbs 4.4. An overview of tense, aspect, voice and modality
UNIT 5: THE ADJECTIVE AND THE ADVERB PHRASE (week 8)	5.1. Characteristics of adjectives 5.2. The structure and function of adjective phrases 5.3. Characteristics of adverbs 5.4. The structure and function of adverb phrases
UNIT 6: THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE (week 9)	6.1. The structure of prepositional phrases 6.2. Preposition stranding 6.3. PP complements in clause structure
UNIT 7: THE NOUN PHRASE (week 10-11)	7.1. Introduction 7.2. Determiners 7.3. Complements 7.4. Internal and external modifiers 7.5. Pronouns 7.6. Genitive case
UNIT 8: SUBORDINATION AND CONTENT CLAUSES (week 12-13)	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 14)	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 15)	10.1 Four kinds of non-finite clause 10.2 The form of non-finite clauses 10.3. The functions of non-finite clauses