Contingut

The main goal of this course is to develop the student's knowledge of the basic grammatical and semantic properties of the verb phrase and the noun phrase in English, while analysing their functions in English descriptive and narrative texts.

Programa

Week 1: Noun and noun phrase: structural properties and distribution.
Week 3: Noun and noun phrase: semantic features and function in discourse.
Week 4: Adjectives and adjectival phrases: modification.
Week 5: Pro-forms: typology and structural properties.
Week 6: Pro-forms: function and distribution in discourse.
Week 7: Basic features of the verbal group.
Week 8: Tense. English simple and future tenses.
Week 9: The progressive and aspectual classes (perfectivity, stativity, duration, habitualness).
Week 10: The perfect tenses: anteriority and other features.

Avaluació

Tasques fetes durant el curs: (30%) i examen final (70%).

Bibliografia

COMRIE BERNARD. Tense. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
DOWNING ANGELA & LOCKE PHILIP. A University Course in English Grammar. Prentice Hall, 1992.
GREENBAUM SIDNEY & QUIRK RANDOLPH. A student's grammar of the English language. Longman, 1990.
HUDDLESTON RODNEY.Introduction to the grammar of English. Cambridge University Press,1984.