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Linguistics 3: English Syntax and Syntactic Argumentation

Course
2016-2017

Admission requirements

Linguistics 2 must have been successfully completed.

Description

This course is a follow-up on Linguistics 2: The Syntax of English. We will look more closely at how syntax interacts with semantics (i.e. meaning), we will introduce a more refined representation of phrase structure (X-bar syntax), we will discuss further examples of constituent movement, and we will further acquaint ourselves with the essentials of syntactic argumentation.

Course objectives

  • Students have the ability to analyse and represent the syntactic structure of English.

  • Students have the ability to formulate syntactic arguments.

  • Students know some important descriptive tools and theoretical concepts of generative syntax.

Timetable

The timetable is available on the BA English website

Mode of instruction

  • Lecture (1 hour p/w)

  • Seminar (1 hour p/w)

Course Load

The course load is 140 hours.

  • Hours spent on attending lectures and seminars: 26

  • Time for preparing the homework (reading + exercises): 34

  • Time to prepare for the written assignment, quiz and exam: 80

Assessment method

  • Mid-term written assignment: 15%

  • In-term quiz: 15%

  • End-of-term exam (70%).

If the quiz mark is lower than the exam mark, the quiz mark will not be taken into account and the exam mark will count towards 85% of the final mark (the assignment counts towards 15% of the final mark).
A minimum mark of 5.5 for the written assignment and the exam.

Blackboard

Blackboard

Reading list

Geoffrey Poole. 2011. Syntactic Theory. 2nd edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Registration

Enrolment through uSis is mandatory. Please note that students other than BA English language and culture studies will have to have permission from the coordinator of studies before enrolling.
General information about uSis is available in English and Dutch

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Contact

Student administration Van Eyckhof