Course Syllabus
1. Course number:
2202601
2. Course credit:
3 (3 - 0 - 9)
3. Course title:
English Syntax I (ENG SYNTAX I)
4. Faculty/ department: Faculty of Arts/ Department of English
5. Semester:
first
6. Year:
2006
7. Instructor:
Assistant Professor Pasinee Sornhiran, Ph.D
8. Condition:
9. Course status:
required
10. Degree:
Master of Arts (English)
11. Degree level:
master’s degree
12. Number of hours per week: 3 hours
13. Course description:
The grammatical structure of modern English within the structural
framework: part of speech identification; sentence analysis; classification of major
syntactic structures; classification of sentences in conversation.
14. Course outline:
14.1 Course objectives: the main objectives of this course are threefold:
1. To enable the students to identify various parts of speech through structural
signals;
2. To introduce the five major syntactic structures of the English language to
the students;
3. To enable the students to recognize various types of utterances in
conversation.
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14.2 Course schedule:
week 1 Pretest, Introduction, ch. 5 History of Structural Grammar
week 2 Principles of Structural Grammar, Lexical and Structural Meanings
week 3 Five Signals of Syntactic Structure
week 4 Nouns
week 5 Verbs
week 6 Adjectives
week 7 Adverbs
week 8 ch. 6 Five Syntactic Structures; IC Analysis
week 9 Structure of Modification: Noun as Head
week 10 Verb as Head, Other Types of Head
week 11 Structure of Predication
week 12 Structure of Complementation
week 13 Structures of Subordination and Coordination
week 14 ch. 7 Sentences, Situation-Sentences
week 15 Sequence-Sentences, Response-Sentences
week 16 Revision
14.3 Teaching-learning method: lectures and discussions with practices
14.4 Evaluation:
The final grades will be computed from the following:
1. homework and classwork
40%
2. final exams
60%
Total
100%
15. Bibliography
15.1 Required text: chapters 5-7 from The Structure of American English by W.
Nelson Francis
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15.2 Suggested readings:
Bloomfield, Leonard. 1933. Language. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
De Saussure, Ferdinand. 1915. Cours de Linguistique Generale. Edited by Charles
Bally and Albert Sechehaye. Paris: Payot. Trans. by Wade Baskin, 1959.
Course in General Linguistics. New York: Philosophical Library.
Francis, W. Nelson. 1958. The Structure of American English. New York: Ronald
Press.
_____. 1952. “Revolution in Grammar.” In Introductory Readings on Language, pp.
391-409. Edited by Wallalce L. Anderson and Norman C. Stageberg. New
York: Holt, Rinehart and Winstion.
Fries, Charles C. 1952. The Structure of English. New York: Harcourt, Brace &
World.
Gleason, Henry A. 1955. An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics. rev. ed. New
York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Hockett, Charles F. 1958. A Course in Modern Linguistics. New York: Macmillan.
Sapir, Edward. 1921. Language. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.
_____. 1952. “Sound Patterns in Language.” Language. 1:37-51.
16. Teaching-learning evaluation form: lectures and discussions