2023_24
Educational guide 
Faculty of Arts
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english 
Bachelor's Degree in English Studies (2009)
 Subjects
  ENGLISH LANGUAGE VI
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
I. Basic concepts
II. The verbal group 2. Major verb classes
2.1. Lexical verbs
2.1.1. Regular verbs
2.1.2. Irregular verbs
2.2. Auxiliary vs lexical verbs
2.2.1. Operators (properties)
2.3. Auxiliary verbs
2.3.1. Primary verbs
2.3.2. Modal auxiliaries

3. Tense, aspect, voice & mood
3.1. Tense
3.1.1. Time vs tense
3.1.2. Future time
3.1.3. Stative vs dynamic verbs
3.1.4. Meanings & uses
3.2. Aspect
3.2.1. Perfective
3.2.2. Progressive
3.2.3. Perfective progressive
3.3. Voice
3.3.1. Active and passive
3.3.2. Voice constraints
3.3.3. The passive gradient
3.4. Mood and modality
3.4.1. The subjunctive mood
3.4.2. Intrinsic vs extrinsic modality
3.4.3. Meanings expressed by modals
III. Representation 4. Phrase structure
4.1. Constituency
4.2. Syntactic representation / X-bar syntax
IV. The verb as Head of VPs 5. The English verb phrase

6. Main verbs: copulas vs predicates
6.1. Argument structure
6.1.1. Types of predicates
6.1.2. Semantic roles
6.2. Subcategorization (or categorial selection)
6.3. Arguments versus non-arguments
V. The English Verb Phrase 7. Copular verbs

8. Intransitive verbs
8.1. Unergative verbs
8.2. Unaccusative verbs

9. Intransitive/transitive verbs
9.1. Inchoative/causative alternation (ergative verbs)
9.2. Middle construction
9.3. Alternations affecting meaning
9.4. Other alternations

10. Transitive verbs
10.1. Monotransitive verbs
10.1.1. Subject-instrument alternation
10.1.2. Conative alternation
10.1.3. Unexpressed-object alternation
10.1.4. Possessor alternations
10.1.5. Other oblique-subject alternations
10.2. Ditransitive verbs
10.2.1. Locative alternation
10.2.2. Dative alternation
10.2.3. Benefactive alternation
10.3. Complex-transitive verbs
10.3.1. As alternation
VI. Prepositions and Prepositional phrases 11.1 The word class of prepositions
11.2. Structure of PPs
11.2.1. Complements
11.2.2. Modification
11.3. Prepositional complements in clause structure
11.3.1. Goal, source and location
11.3.2. Complements of prepositional verbs
11.3.3. Particles
11.3.4. Verbal idioms
11.4. Prepositional idioms and fossilisation
VII. Negation and related phenomena 12.1. Negative and positive clauses
12.2. Subclausal negation
12.3. Clausal negation
12.4. Non-affirmative items
12.5. Scope of negation