SYLLABUS
COURSE TITLE
FACULTY/INSTITUTE
COURSE CODE
DEGREE PROGRAMME
FIELD OF STUDY
SYNTAX
INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES
DEGREE LEVEL
ENGLISH STUDIES
FORMA
MODE
STUDIÓW/STUDY
BA STUDIES
FULL-TIME STUDIES
BASIC CONTENT
YEAR 2, SUMMER SEMESTER
DR EWA KONIECZNA
COURSE FORMAT
YEAR AND SEMESTER
NAME OF THE TEACHER
COURSE OBJECTIVES
The aim of the course is to make students familiar with the basics of English syntax. The
course comprises basic syntactic terms and categorial as well as functional classification of
sentence elements. A special emphasis is put on the syntax of the verb and noun phrase.
Another aim of the course is to make students acquainted with the complex and compound
sentence and to introduce the most important theoretical frameworks that have shaped the
syntactic theory since the first half of the 20th century.
PREREQUISITES
KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH AT AN ADVANCED LEVEL
KNOWLEDGE:
LEARNING OUTCOMES
BY THE END OF THE COURSE THE STUDENT:
-IDENTIFIES BASIC SYNTACTIC TERMS
- KNOWS SYNTACTIC LAWS AND PROCESSES GOVERNING THE
STRUCTURE OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE
SKILLS:
BY THE END OF THE COURSE THE STUDENT CAN:
-ANALYSE ENGLISH SENTENCES
-DISTINGUISH SENTENCE ELEMENTS AND SPECIFY THEIR
FUNCTION
FINAL COURSE OUTPUT - SOCIAL COMPETENCES
THE STUDENT:
- IS ABLE TO COMMUNICATE COHERENTLY HIS CRITICAL OPINIONS
- IS OPEN TO THE VIEWS OF OTHERS
COURSE ORGANISATION –LEARNING FORMAT AND NUMBER OF HOURS
LECTURES – 15 HOURS
CLASSES – 30 HOURS
COURSE DESCRIPTION
LECTURES
HOURS
20th
Basic syntactic theories of the
century
4
The Prague School and Functional Syntax
4
Bloomfield’s theory
4
Chomsky’s transformational-generative grammar
4
Various types of sentences and constructions
4
Grammatical functions
4
Verbless clauses
2
Word order
4
CLASSES
Noun phrase
2
Verb phrase
3
Noun Clausem
5
Adverbial Clauses
5
METHODS OF INSTRUCTION
LECTURES
THE ANALYSIS OF A SIMPLE, COMPEX AND COMPOUND
SENTENCE
REQUIREMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN THE CLASSES, PARTICIPATION
IN LECTURES, WRITTEN TESTS.
GRADING SYSTEM
The final grade is assigned on the basis of a positive
outcome of final tests; the pass level is 60% for each
test; the final grade may be improved by active
participation in the classes
TOTAL STUDENT WORKLOAD
LECTURES: 30 HOURS
NEEDED TO ACHIEVE EXPECTED
CLASSES: 15 HOURS
LEARNING OUTCOMES EXPRESSED
PREPARATION FOR THE CLASSES AND TESTS: 15
IN TIME AND ECTS CREDIT POINTS
HOURS
TOTAL WORKLOAD: 60 HOURS
ECTS POINTS: 2
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
ENGLISH
INTERNSHIP
NOT APPLICABLE
MATERIALS
PRIMARY OR REQUIRED BOOKS/READINGS:
Quirk, Randolph; Greenbaum, Sidney; Leech, Geoffrey;
and Svartvik, Jan. 1985. A Grammar of Contemporary
English. London and New York: Longman.
Mathesius, Vilem. 1961. A Functional Analysis of
Present day English on a General Linguistic Basis.
Prague: Academia.
Burton-Roberts,
N.
Analysing
sentences.
An
Introduction to English Syntax. Longman, 1986
Kaznowski, A.& E. Mioduszewska.. Exercises in
English Transformational Syntax. PWN, 1983.
SUPPLEMENTAL OR OPTIONAL BOOKS/READINGS:
Chomsky, Noam. 1957. Syntactic Structures. The
Hague: Mouton