Outline
Outline
Course Outline Date 16.04.04 23.04.04 30.04.04 07.05.04 14.05.04 21.05.04 28.05.04 04.06.04 11.06.04 18.06.04 25.06.04 02.07.04 09.07.04 16.07.04 Topic Introduction The structure of words Nouns and determiners Adjectives and Adverbs Verbs and Auxiliaries The semantics of the verb phrase: An experiment Prepositions and prepositional phrases The structure of sentences Sentence types and discourse functions Pro-forms and ellipsis Coordination Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses Complementation of verbs and adjectives Conclusion and evaluation
Recommended readings Greenbaum, S. / Quirk, R. (1993) A students grammar of the English language. Harlow: Longman Biber et al. (1999). Longman grammar of spoken and written English. Harlow: Longman Huddleston, R. / Pullum, G. (2003). The Cambridge grammar of the English language. Cambridge: CUP Quirk, R. et al. (1993). A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman