2023_24
Guia docent 
Facultat de Lletres
A A 
català 
Grau en Anglès (2009)
 Assignatures
  GRAMÀTICA ANGLESA AVANÇADA
   Continguts
Tema Subtema
Introduction

- basic concepts in grammar


Tense and time - absolute and relative tenses
- reference time, speech time, event time
- temporal deixis
Aspect and aspectuality - situation aspect vs. viewpoint aspect
- generic and specific predications
- stative and dynamic predicates
- durativity
- telicity
- ingressive, continuative, egressive aspect
- grammatical expression of aspect
Mood and modality - the linguistic expression of modality
- necessity and possibility
- epistemic modality
- deontic modality
- circumstantial or dynamic modality
- degrees of modality
Negation - morphological negation
- syntactic negation
- scope and focus of negation
- verbal and non-verbal negation
- polarity-sensitive items
Complex issues in derivational morphology - morphological productivity and lexicalixation
- inflection versus derivation
- grammatical categories vs. features
- case studies
The morphosyntax of compounds - morphological compound versus syntactic construction
- internal structure of compounds
- compounding vs. derivation
Clause type and illocutionary force - speech acts
- illocutionary force
- syntax and semantics of questions
- syntax and semantics of exclamatives