English Philology
Grammar and its Theory
Faculty of Philology, Department of English Philology
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Linas Selmistraitis
Room 209, Department of English Philology, Lithuanian
University of Educational Sciences, 39 Studentų St., Vilnius
LT-08106, Lithuania, tel. +370 5 2757258, e-mail:
linas.selmistraitis@leu.lt
English
Language of Instruction
The English Language B2 level according to CEFR1
Required Prerequisites
Suggested Academic Cycle Bachelor degree studies (from 3rd year of studies)
or Year of Studies
Autumn
Semester
3
ECTS Credits
3
Contact Hours per Week
Compulsory
Compulsory/ Elective
Lectures, seminars and individual consultations
Methods of Teaching
Examination
Form of Assessment
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Course Description
The course helps the students to gain a deeper understanding of grammatical system of
the English Language. The students will increase their general linguistic education and will to
able to learn English more effectively.
Topics of the course:
1. Language and its properties.
2. Grammatical and semantic categories.
3. Types of grammar.
4. Structural features of present-day English.
5. Principles of word classification.
6. The noun and its grammatical categories.
7. The adjective and its grammatical features.
8. The pronoun and its features.
9. The finite forms of the verb and their grammatical features.
10. The non-finite forms of the verb.
11. The sentence and its three levels.
12. The sentence as the contextualization of the clause.
Readings
1. Biber, D., Johansson, S., Leech, G., Conrad, S., Finegan, E. (1999). Longman
Grammar of Spoken and Written English.
2. Biber D., Leech, G., Conrad S. (2002) Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and
Written English. Longman.
3. Greenbaum, S. (1994) An Introduction to English Grammar. Longman.
4. Valeika, L., Buitkienė J. (2003) An Introductory Course in Theoretical English
Grammar. VPU, 2003.
5. Valeika, L., Buitkienė, J. (2006) Functional English Syntax. VPU.
1
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.