| Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
| Graduate in English Studies |
 Subjects |
| ADVANCED ENGLISH GRAMMAR |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2013_14 |
| Subject | ADVANCED ENGLISH GRAMMAR | Code | 12274207 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 6 | Optional | First |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| I. Tense and time | - absolute and relative tenses - reference time, speech time, event time - temporal deixis |
| II. Aspect and aspectuality | - generic and specific predications - stative and dynamic predicates - durativity - telicity - ingressive, continuative, egressive aspect - grammatical expression of aspect - theories of aspect - aspect in discourse |
| III. Mood and modality | - necessity and possibility - epistemic modality - deontic modality - circumstantial modality - degrees of modality |
| IV. Negation | - morphological negation - syntactic negation - scope and focus of negation - verbal and non-verbal negation - polarity-sensitive items |
| VI. The morphosyntax of compounds | - morphological compound versus syntactic construction - internal structure of compounds - compound nouns - compound adjectives - compound verbs - compounding vs. derivation - neoclassical compounds |
| VI. Clause type and illocutionary force | - semantics and pragmatics - speech acts - illocutionary force - indirect speech acts - syntax and semantics of questions - syntax and semantics of exclamatives |
