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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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