Course title: English Syntax 3
Code: AN152 K1
Credits: Semester: Type of Class:
lecture
1
5
Evaluation:
examination
Language of Instruction: English
Description:
The goal of the courses in English syntax is to outline a coherent theory of English syntax.
Broader semantic and pragmatic implications of syntactic issues are regularly discussed.
Students will understand the goals of syntactic theory, its major concepts and categories,
the structure of linguistic expressions in general, and the structure of phrases in English in
particular. The goal of this particular course is to introduce students to some of the major
issues raised and faced by an adequate account of English nonfinite expressions.
Accompanying a critical discussion of the major alternative treatments of English
nonfinites a coherent theoretical framework is gradually developed in which English
nonfinite expressions may be adequately accounted for. Descriptive discussions will focus
on the following aspects of English: nonfinite expressions as subject of the sentence and
object of the verb, structural subcategories nonfinite expressions, the distribution of
infinitives, gerunds, and participles, nonfinite complements and factivity, nonfinite
complements on verbal and adjectival predicates. Familiarity with elementary concepts of
syntactic theory is assumed.
Readings:
Greenbaum, S. and R. Quirk. A Student’s Grammar of the English Language. Longman,
Harlow, 1990.
Huddleston, R and G. Pullum. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. CUP,
Cambridge, 2002.
Chalker, S. A Student’s English Grammar Workbook. Longman, Harlow, 1992.
Radford, A. Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English. CUP, 2004.
Radford, A. Syntax: A Minimalist Introduction. CUP, Cambridge, 1997.
Budai, L. English Phrasal and Clausal Syntax. University of Veszprém, Veszprém, 1997.
Course director: dr. Czeglédi Csaba CSc
Instructors: dr. Dalmi Gréte PhD, dr. Kovács Éva PhD, dr. Herczeg-Deli Ágnes