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175-015 Syntax | |
Note | Formerly available as 175-211/311. Students who have completed 175-211/311 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Dr Lesley Stirling |
Prerequisites | Completion of 175-004 Introduction to Language or 175-005 English: Its Structure and History or departmental approval. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial per week. There will be no tutorials in the first and the sixth week of semester |
Subject Description | This subject is an introduction to basic concepts and methods of syntactic analysis and description. Emphasis is on practical analysis and description of a wide range of phenomena from a variety of languages. Students should become familiar with topics such as constituent structure; syntactic categories; grammatical functions (interface with morphology); thematic relations (interface with semantics); word order; multi-clausal constructions; and complement clauses, relative clauses and clause linking; and unbounded dependencies. |
Assessment | Three 500 word assignments, a mid-semester 1-hour test, a 1-hour take-home examination, and tutorial participation equivalent to 500 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader and manual will be available. |
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