Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500245 English Studies | OT | 3 | 0 |
2500245 English Studies | OT | 4 | 0 |
English level required: C2. With C2 the student can straightforwardly understand practically everything s/he reads or hears, summarise information from different oral and written sources, reconstruct facts and arguments and present them in a coherent way, express himself/herself naturally and fluently, distinguishing subtle meaning nuances even in the most complex situations.
Knowledge of basic syntactic notions as the ones covered in the second year subject English Syntax 100223.
- To identify the structure of English sentences and the elements these are made of.
- To recognize the operations and processes that underlie characteristic constructions in English such as different types of yes-no and wh-interrogatives, passives, raising, non-finite clauses or those including expletive elements.
- To be able to assess different syntactic analyses for specific constructions.
1. Introduction: Core concepts
2. Subjects and objects
3. The Deteminer Phrase (DP)
4. The Complementizer Phrase (CP)
5. Wh-movement and locality
Directed activities:
Lectures with IT support.
Supervised activities:
Exercises and projects.
Back-up tutorials to help in the realisation of exercises and projects.
Autonomous activities:
Reading of manuals and textbooks.
Elaboration of study diagrams, summaries and texts.
Practical exercises (individual and in group).
Projects (individual and in group).
Use of the Virtual Campus.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures and group debate | 50 | 2 | 1, 3, 4, 2, 7, 14, 8, 5, 9 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Classroom exercises and individual tutorials | 25 | 1 | 1, 3, 4, 2, 7, 14, 8, 5, 9 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Reading, revision, exercises and projects, and use of the Campus Virtual | 50 | 2 | 1, 3, 4, 2, 7, 14, 8, 5, 9 |
This course is assessed on the basis of three parts: two partial exams (40% and 40%) and an assignment (20%).
On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.
Midterm 1: March 2021
Midterm 2: May 2021
Assignment: April 2021
REASSESSMENT
Students with a final course mark between 3,5/10 who have completed ALL assessment items are eligible for reassessment. For a mark of a partial exam or assignment to average, it has to be equal to or higher than 3,5/10.
The reassessment exam will be a written test, at a time assigned by the Faculty, which will synthesise the contents of the course.
Students will obtain a Not assessed/Not submitted course grade unless they have submitted more than 40% of the assessment items.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
VERY IMPORTANT: Plagiarism in any of the exercises will automatically lead to FAILING (0/10) the exercise, which cannot be reassessed. If the student plagiarises a second time, s/he will fail the course. PLAGIARISM means copying a text (and this includes a single sentence) from unidentified sources and pretending it is part of one's own production (THIS INCLUDES COPYING SENTENCES OR FRAGMENTS FROM THE INTERNET, WHICH ARE INCLUDED WITHOUT ANY CHANGES TO THE TEXT THAT IS PRESENTED AS ONE'S OWN) and it is a serious academic offence. Students must learn to respect others' intellectual property and to always identify the sources they use. It is absolutely necessary for students to become entirely responsible for theoriginality and authenticity of their texts.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Assignment | 20% | 8 | 0.32 | 1, 3, 4, 2, 13, 12, 7, 14, 8, 5, 11, 9 |
Midterm 1 | 40% | 8.5 | 0.34 | 1, 6, 12, 10, 14, 8, 5, 9 |
Midterm 2 | 40% | 8.5 | 0.34 | 1, 3, 4, 2, 7, 14, 8, 5, 9 |
COURSE BOOK: Adger, David (2003) Core Syntax. A Minimalist Approach, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
OTHER REFERENCES:
Aarts, Bas (1997) English Syntax and Argumentation, London: MacMillan.
Haegeman , Liliane & Jaqueline Guéron (1999) English Grammar. A Generative Perspective, Oxford: Blackwell.
Llinàs, Mireia, Capdevila, Monterrat, Dominguez, Joaquín, Moyer, Melissa, Pladevall, Elisabet i Susagna Tubau (2014), SECOND EDITION. Basic concepts for the Analysis of English Sentences. Bellaterra: Servei de Publicacions.
Ouhalla, Jamal (1994) Introducing Transformational Grammar. From Rules to Principles and Parameters, University Press London: Eduard Arnold.
Radford, Andrew (1997) Syntax: A Minimalist Introduction , Cambridge: C.U.P.
Radford, Andrew (2004) Minimalist Syntax. Exploring the Structure of English, Cambridge: C.U.P.
Radford, Andrew, Martin Atkinson, David Britain, Harald Clahsen & Andrew Spencer (1999) Linguistics. An Introduction, Cambridge: C. U. P.
Roberts, Ian (1997) Comparative Syntax, London: Arnold.