English Language - Theoretical Part - 1st year triennale - Academic Year 2005-06

Triennale (tutti i corsi di laurea) Cognomi D-Z, Gruppi B,C,D ed E.

Lingua inglese I

Corso di Laurea Triennale in Lingue e Culture Europee ed Extraeuropee

Corso di Laurea Triennale in Lingue per la Mediazione Linguistica

Corso di Laurea Triennale in Lingue e Comunicazione

Lingua Inglese - Primo Anno - Gruppi B,C,D ed E

Programma Anno Accademico 2005/06

Geoffrey Michael Gray

English Language 1: Structural Grammar (20 ore, 10 crediti)

Textbooks

· F. Aarts and J. Aarts, 1982, English Syntactic Structures: Functions and Categories in Sentence Analysis, Pergamon, Oxford;

· F. Aarts and J. Aarts, 1982, English Syntactic Structures: Functions and Categories in Sentence Analysis: Workbook, Pergamon, Oxford.


Essential Syllabus

· Introduction to Structural Grammar

· Constituents, the Rankscale and Rankshift

· Tree-Diagrams

· The Morpheme: Free Morphemes, Bound Morphemes, Prefixes, Suffixes, Derivational Affixes, Inflectional Affixes

· The Word: Open Classes (Nouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Verbs) and Closed Classes (Prepositions, Conjunctions, Articles, Numerals, Pronouns, Quantifiers, Interjections)

· The Phrase: Noun Phrase, Adjective Phrase, Adverb Phrase, Verb Phrase, Prepositional Phrase

· The Clause: Finite Clause, Non-Finite Clause, Verbless Clause

· The Sentence Forms: Simple Sentence, Compound Sentence and Coordination, Complex Sentence and Subordination

· The Sentence Functions: Positive Sentence, Negative Sentence, Interrogative Sentence, Imperative Sentence, Exclamatory Sentence

· The Sentence and the Organisation of the Message: End-Focus and Contrastive Focus, Unmarked Wordorder and Marked Wordorder, the Cleft Sentence and the Pseudo Cleft Sentence

· Sentence Phrase Functions (Subject, Predicator, Adverbial, Direct Object, Indirect Object, Benefactive Object, Subject Attribute, Object Attribute, Predicator Complement) and Their Realisations