Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
Bachelor's Degree in English Studies (2009) |
Subjects |
ENGLISH LANGUAGE VI |
Contents |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2021_22 |
Subject | ENGLISH LANGUAGE VI | Code | 12274116 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
6 | Compulsory | Fourth | 2Q |
Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
Topic | Sub-topic |
I. Basic concepts |
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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 |