Langue VII

Psycholinguistique

Enseignant: Hanen Dammak

Sémantique/Syntaxe

This course aims at acquainting students with further grammatical knowledge than that acquired in 1^st year, and enables them to know how to form and describe sentences and clauses, which will pave the way for more accurate writing, and facilitate their understanding of syntax in their further studies. By the end of the course students should be able to:

 

a.       Recognise the sentence constituents and analyse syntactic categories: NPs, VPs, Adj Phs, Adv Phs and PPs

b.      Identify the functions of the various constituents of the sentence: subjects, objects, and complements

c.       Have a good command of concepts such as modification, predication, verb categories, verb complementation…

d.      Identify the simple sentence with its many semantic facets such as statements, questions, exclamations, requests.

e.       Identify the various clause patterns within a compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence and know how to construct and analyse them

f.       Distinguish within the concept of subordination between the adverbial type, the adjectival type, and the nominal type of subordinate clause with all their respective semantic implications

 

Course Outline

 

 The Simple Sentence

Semester II: Clauses and complex sentences

1.      Coordination and the compound sentence: Independent clauses and dependent clauses.

2.      Subordination and the complex sentence: main, and subordinate clauses.

3.      Adverbial clauses.

4.      Adjective/Relative clauses.

5.      Noun clauses and reported speech.

6.      Variation