Syntax B

Syllabus

Syntax B – Spring Semester 2018

Syllabus

Month

Greenbaum & Quirk, Chalker

Gethin (Grammar in Context)

 
 
 
 
February/March

Ch. 13 - Coordination

 
Ch. 3 A – Relation between result and cause

 

Ch. 13 – cont.

 
Ch. 3 B – Result expressed with too or enough

 

March
 

 
Ch. 13 – cont.

 

 
Ch. 4 A – Purpose, standard constructions

 

Ch. 16 – Complementation of verbs and adjectives

 

Ch. 4 B – Purpose, shortened constructions

Ch. 6 – Cause, purpose, concession (alternatives)
 

Ch. 16 – cont.

 

Ch. 5 – Concession

Ch. 16 – cont.

 

Ch. 7 - Time
Revision of Chapters 4-6

 

 
April

 

 
Mid-term test: Chapters 13,16

 

 
Mid-term test: Chapters 10, 3-7
Mid-term translation (non-finite verb forms)

 

 
Ch. 14 – The complex sentence
Test analysis

 

 

Ch. 8 A – Relatives, introduction
Test and translation analysis

 

 
Ch. 14 – cont.
Ch. 15 – Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses

 

 
Ch. 8 B – Sentence building with relatives

 

Ch. 15 – cont.
 

Ch. 8 C – Relatives, shortened constructions
Ch. 9 – Similarity and comparison

 

May

 
Revision of Chapter 14-15

 

 
Revision of Chapters 8 A-C