Department or Chair
within the Faculty
Department of English
Study program
English Studies
Study level
1st cycle
Course title
Syntax of the English Simple Clause
Course code
ENG 401
Language of instruction
English
This course deals with the structure of the simple
clause in English. The first part explores the different
syntactic functions making up a well-formed English
clause, as well as the morphosyntactic phenomena
which hold them together. The second part of the
course looks into different formal types and
communicative functions of interrogative, negative,
imperative and exclamative clauses
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Course description
Form of teaching
- demonstrate the complex relationships between
linguistic form and function
- use syntactic argumentation in the syntactic analysis
of clauses
- using syntactic argumentation, explain the ambiguity
of clauses, which contributes to further development of
students’ language competence
- analyse, and correctly apply the morphosyntactic
means which govern the internal structure of English
clauses, such as concord, word order regularities
- define the relationship between the syntactic
structure and the communicative function of clauses
- identify the factors which account for differences
between declarative clauses, interrogative clauses,
directives, etc.
- analyse the formal and semantic/pragmatic
properties of different functional subtypes of clauses
(typology of questions, negation)
- analyse some similarities and differences between the
English and Croatian syntactic systems
1 period lecture; 1 period seminar
Form of assessment
3 progress tests taken in the course of the semester
Number of ECTS
4
Class hours per week
2
Minimum number of
students
-
Period of realization
Summer semester
Lecturer
Gabrijela Buljan, assistant professor