Guia docente 2011_12 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contidos

Tema	Subtema
Bloque A: Grammaticalization, Construction Grammar and history of the English language (Dr. Graham Trousdale)	1. The concept of grammaticalization 2. The concept of constructionalization 3. Lexical and constructional elements from a synchronic and diachronic perspective 4. Versions of Construction Grammars
Bloque B: Syntax, complexity and history of the English language (Prof. Britta Mondorf)	1. Aspects of historical grammaticalization 2. Expletive transitivization of intransitive predicates 3. Aspects of variation in the English language 4. Complement clauses with(out) a complementizer 5. Infinitive clauses with(out) an infinitive marker
Bloque C: Topics in English grammar and lexis (Prof. John Lachlan Mackenzie)	1. Double-possessive nominalizations: 'our understanding of the world' 2. 'Fail' as a periphrastic negative 3. 'On a friendly basis': an adverbializing construction 4. 'Besides' as a connective 5. Some contrasts between English and Spanish