Grammar Seminar

Grammar Seminar

Study Cycle: 1

Lectures:0

Seminars:60

Tutorials:0

ECTS credit:5

Lecturer(s): prof. dr. Ilc Gašper

Content

The seminar guides students through the basics of linguistic research methodology (gathering the linguistic data, different language tools, quantitative and qualitative analysis, interpretation of results).
The course covers a variety of topics from English linguistics in the frame of different contemporary theoretical approaches. The topics that are covered during the course include: noun phrase (e.g., the use of articles, word-formation processes, Saxon-genitive); verb phrase (e.g., aspect, delexicalised verbs); adjectival, adverbial and prepositional phrase; punctuation; sentence analysis; semantic roles (theta-roles); logical operators, functional sentence perspective; linguistic variation; set expressions; corpus analysis, etc.
The seminar work helps students develop and acquire the competences to use methods of scientific research and the ability to analyse and synthesise.