English Syntax
Study Cycle: 1
Lectures: 30
Seminars: 0
Tutorials: 30
ECTS credit: 5
Lecturer(s): doc. dr. Lazović Vesna, doc. dr. Lipovšek Frančiška
The study of syntax from the prescriptive, descriptive and functionalist points of view.
Syntactic structure of phrases (verb phrase, noun phrase, adjective phrase, adverb phrase and prepositional phrase).
Simple sentence: sentence elements (type and realization), semantic roles, agreement, constituent order.
Basic English sentence patterns.
Marked sentence patterns (extraposition, existential sentences, cleft sentences).
Negation.
Coordination and subordination.
Types of subordinate clauses according to form and function.
Complex-compound sentence.
English-specific features of syntactic structures which are a potential source of difficulties for Slovene native speakers.
Biber, D. et al. 2003. Longman Student grammar of spoken and written English. Harlow (Essex): Longman. Selected chapters (3, 8-9). COBISS.SI-ID - 8758838
Greenbaum, S. and Randolph Quirk. 2016, cop. 1990. A Student's Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman. Selected chapters (8-10, 13-17). COBISS.SI-ID – 65293154
Huddleston, R. and Geoffrey K. Pullum. 2006, cop. 2005. A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar. Cambridge: CUP. Selected chapters (2, 4, 7-9, 14-15). COBISS.SI-ID – 33043810
Yule, G. 2023. The Study of Language. 8th edition. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Selected chapters (7-8).