IDENTIFYING DATA 2013_14
Subject (*) GRAMÀTICA ANGLESA I Code 12142016
Study programme
Filologia Anglesa (2001)
 Cycle 2n
Descriptors Credits Theory credits Practical credits Type Year Period Exam timetables and dates
6 4.5 1.5 Troncal Quart Primer
Modality and teaching language See working groups
Department Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys
Coordinator
OLTRA MASSUET, MARIA ISABEL
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Lecturers
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General description and relevant information This course is intended to offer a deep insight into some structural and functional complexities of English, at the level of the phrase, the clause and the sentence. The course will focus on the complexities of the English noun phrase and other complex structures - subordination and topicalization processes - from a theoretical and practical perspective.
In this subject you only have the right to make the exam, because the degree you are studying is going to be extinguished. You have to take a look the timetable of the subject to know the exam's date. If you need an extraordinary exam session, you have to enrol for this, presenting an application to the secretariat of your campus or faculty.

Continguts
Topic Sub-topic
Revision and development of basic concepts *Grammar
*Syntax
*Form and function
*Phrase structure
*Ambiguity
The English NP: Main patterns *Determiners and quantifiers
*Pronouns
*Modification
Embedded clauses *Nominal clauses
*Adverbial clauses
*Comparative structures
Complex structures *Focus and theme
*Inversion
*Extraposition
*Clefts
*Pseudo-clefts
*Existentials

Atenció personalitzada
Description
I will be in my office for personal consultation at established office hours. I will also be available for consultation via e-mail.

Avaluació
 
Other comments and second exam session

Students registered for this subject should contact instructor at the beginning of the course.


Fonts d'informació
Bàsica Wardhaugh, R., Understanding English Grammar, , Blackwell
Huddleston, R. and G. Pullum, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, , Longman
Greenbaum, S. and R. Quirk, A Student's Grammar of the English Language, , Longman
Baker, C.L., English Syntax, , The MIT Press

Complementària

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