Description

- Understand the core of Generative Grammar. - Understand the theory of constituency. - Understand the function of the different constituents. - Show whether a string of words is a constituent or not. - Identify different sentence, clause and phrase types and recognize phrase structure rules. - State the different syntactic processes and apply them. - Apply the functions of language and use language effectively according to context and intention. - Distinguish between finite and non-finite clauses. - Identify the types of Subjunctive mood - Differentiate between generic and specific nouns. - Differentiate between stative and dynamic verbs. - Utilize the appropriate model auxiliary verbs. - Distinguish between prescriptive and descriptive rules. - Learn how to analyze different texts. - Relate texts to their context to get a better grasp of writing. - Apply the grammatical system of modality on different texts. - Form grammatically sound relative clauses.

Objectives

• This course is concerned with the study of Syntax, the way in which a specific language combines words to form sentences. It aims to introduce the aspects of syntax and the main syntactic notions and terminology. Students will be introduced to the different elements of a sentence and the different types of phrases. They will also understand the usage of the different phrases and the function of their constituents. It also aims to provide an introduction to the mainstream syntactic theories of Generative Grammar developed by Noam Chomsky since 1957, and Sysytemic Functional Grammar devised by Michael Halliday.