175-015 Syntax

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175-015 Syntax
Note	Formerly available as 175-211/311. Students who have completed 175-211 or 175-311 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.
Availability	2nd and 3rd year
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 tutorial in the first 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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