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    UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASÍLIA

    INSTITUTO DE LETRAS – IL
    DEPARTAMENTO DE LÍNGUAS ESTRANGEIRAS E TRADUÇÃO – LET
    LET 0312 – Introdução à Morfossintaxe do Inglês
    2º Semestre 2021
    Professora: Rachel Lourenço (rachellourenco@unb.br)

    COURSE SYLLABUS
    CONTENTS
     Syntactic constituency.
     Grammatical categories.
     Grammatical relations.
     Phrase structure.
     Clause structure.
     Word formation.
     Inflection.

    OBJECTIVES
    This course is an introduction to the foundations of the grammar of the English language. Its main aims
    are: a) to give a broad overview of the main syntactic and morphological phenomena of English through the
    empirical analysis of language; and b) to introduce the analytical tools and procedures for the empirical
    study of language.

    PROCEDURES
    We will meet once a week, usually on Wednesdays at 4pm. If there is any impediment, we will arrange to
    meet on Monday at 4pm. Classes will be taught in English and recorded on Microsoft Teams. Assessments
    will take place online, either through Microsoft Teams or through email. Class recordings will be available
    for 21 days after the date of recording.

    The course will be divided into 10 topics and we will discuss the following texts for each topic:

    TOPIC READING
    an instinct to acquire an art The Language Instinct – chapter 1
    scientific inquiry and language Experimental Psychology – chapter 1
    syntactic overview A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar – chapter 1 + chapter 2
    reflexive pronouns Syntactic Theory – chapter 1
    inflection Word-formation in English – chapter 1; A Student’s Introduction to
    English Grammar – section 3.1
    word formation Word-formation in English – chapter 2
    verbs A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar – sections 3.2; 4.1 to 4.3
    complements vs. modifiers A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar – sections 4.3 to 4.6
    noun phrases A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar – chapter 5
    adjectival phrases A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar – chapter 6

    ASSESSMENT
    Each task assigned will be worth 10 points. The final grade will be the sum of the tasks divided by the
    number of tasks assigned.
    There will be clear and reasonable deadlines for each task. Deadlines will not be extended, so please plan
    to hand in tasks within the period of time provided.

    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    Huddleston, R & G. Pullum (2005) A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar. Cambridge
    University Press.
    Huddleston, R & G. Pullum (2001) The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge
    University Press.
    Kantowitz, B et al. (2009) Experimental Psychology. Wadsworth/Cengage.
    Muller, S. (2018) Grammatical theory - From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches.
    Language Science Press.
    Pinker, S. (1994) The Language Instinct. Penguin Books.
    Plag, Ingo. (2003) Word-formation in English. Cambridge University Press.
    Sag, I et al. (2003) Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction. CSLI Lecture Notes.

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