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Year 4 French.
Availability: Not offered in 1996; expected to be offered in 1997.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Assoc Prof Monique Burston.
Prerequisite: A major in French (Post-VCE French stream), or equivalent.
Contact: Two hours of lectures/seminars a week.
Objectives:
At the end of the subject, students should:
- have gained an awareness of the complexity and subtleties of selected linguistic structures;
- have gained familiarity with standard reference grammars of French and with some technical works on French syntax;
- demonstrate an in-depth understanding of particular syntactic/semantic constructions.
Content:
The personal pronouns (in particular the concept of deixis; the adverbial pronouns; the role of animacy); the impersonal construction (in particular restrictions on its use); the categories of tense and aspect (in particular the past tenses).
Assessment:
Written work totalling not more than 6,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 82)
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