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2009
Description:
This is an extended course in Modern English syntax that deals with most up to date theories
about the structure of English, and primarily of the English sentence. This course first and
foremost presupposes the knowledge of English grammar, basically syntax, from the framework
of Traditional Grammar. The present course moves students into the study of structural syntax,
specifically, and then into the structure of the English sentence from the framework of
Generative-Transformational Grammar. In this course, students are expected to learn about
grammatical competence and performance, various kinds of phrase-markers, generating phrasemarkers, X-bar theory, different types of transformations – V-movement, I-movement, NPmovement, WH-movement , and a bunch of other current theories existing in up to date
American linguistics.
Objectives:
The key objective of the course is to bring students to the knowledge of most current
theories in English Syntax. No less importantly, another purpose behind this course is to enable
students to better understand and analyze the inner structure of Modern English phrase and
sentence, the function and operation of transformations. As students have finished this course,
they will be able to go off and read and understand the literature on Transformational Grammar,
as well as conduct research on their own.
Course policies
1. Grading policy
2. Attendance policy
3. Academic honesty and behavior
1. Grading policy
This course grade is determined by attendance and written tests.
Each unit (module) includes one written test and attendance grading. The overall grade includes
the results of two module-tests plus attendance.
Component 1
Attendance
Component 2
10
90
Written Module test
Total
100
GRADING SCALE
Rating grade ì¶
Credit Grade ¶
Letter Grade î¶
Comment
A
Passing grades
97
100
4.0
90
96
3.7
85
89
3.3
80
84
3.0
70
79
2.7
C
65
69
2.3
D
60
64
2.0
E
55
59
1.7
Fx
1.0
F
54
B
Fail-some work is
required
Fail- considerable
further
work
is
required
I
2. Attendance is important and will be used to portion the students’ grade. Students are
supposed to come to class meetings once a week. Attendance to classes will be taken into
account in your final grading. During one semester there will be two modules. Presence and
participation in modules are obligatory. Missing those will definitely affect your grading.
3. Academic honesty and behavior. Cheating in any form is a serious offence followed by
serious consequences. It will not be tolerated and the result is the failure in this course. All the
work students do for this course is expected to be their own. Classroom conduct is to be
professional, courteous and supportive. All cell phones and other equipment are to be turned off
in the auditorium. Disruptive behavior will reduce the grade by 10 %.
COURSE SYLLABUS
Topics
Theory
Practice
Oral check
up
Written test
Revision
Module 1
Modern syntactic
theories. A general
survey. A Brief review
of traditional grammar.
Basic concepts.
Syntactic constituents.
Syntactic functions.
Syntactic categories.
Principles of
categorization
Phrase structure.
Phrasal categories.
2
4
2
2
1
Topics
Theory
Practice
Oral check
up
Written test
Module 2
2
4
2
2
Phrase markers. Ccommand.
Generating phrasemarkers.
Trees and phrase
structure.
X-bar theory. N-bar
theory.
Transformations.
General review.
Transformations. Vmovement.
Transformations. Imovement.
Transformations. NPmovement.
Transformations. Whmovement.
Overall grade for the course: Module 1+ Module 2= 100%
Module
check
up
1
Total
Revision
Module
check
up
Total
1
1
12
12
Tentative Schedule: 1 term September- January (weeks 3-17)
2 hours a week
Week
1. September 14-19
Topic
Modern Syntactic theories. A General Survey.
Basic concepts. Brief review of traditional
grammar.
Syntactical constituents. C-Diagram.
Constituent analysis.
2. September 21-26
3. September 28-3
Syntactic functions. Functional analysis.
4. October 5-10
Syntactic categories. Principles of
categorization.
5. October 12-17
Phrase structure. Phrasal categories.
6. October 19-24
Phrase markers. C-command.
7. October 26-31
Module written test
8. November 2-7
Generating phrase-markers. Trees and
phrase structure.
9.November 9-14
X-bar theory. N-bar theory.
10. November 16-21
Transformations. General review.
11. November 23-28
Transformations. V-movement.
12. November
December 5
30- Transformations. V-movement.
13. December 7 - 12
Transformations. I-movement
14. December 14-19
Transformations. I-movement.
15. December 21-26
Transformations.
movement.
NP-movement.
Wh-
16. December 26-31
Module written test
This schedule is obligatory for the students. The instructor may use the additional material he/she
finds necessary within the module.
Course Readings
The course is made up of lectures prepared by the instructor. Also, the main text-books used in
the course are “ Transformational Grammar”, “A course in Theoretical English Grammar”, “The
Structure of Modern English”, “A Survey of Modern Grammars”, “Contemporary Linguistics”,
“Readings in the Theory of English Grammar”, and a number of handouts brought from the US
universities.