CURSO : SYNCHRONIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR I
SIGLA : LET1733
CRÉDITOS : 10
MÓDULOS : 02
REQUISITOS : --
CARÁCTER : MINIMUM
I. DESCRIPTION
This course will offer a global perspective of the morphological subsystem of the English language, with a
detailed account of inflectional and derivational morphology, the changes in morphophonemic structure and
the diverse word formation mechanisms operating in the system synchronically.
II. OBJECTIVES
General
1. To develop a critical attitude towards the morphological phenomena of the English language.
2. To describe and analyze English texts from a morphological perspective.
Specific
1. To recognize and describe the morpheme as the minimal linguistic unit of meaning
2. To recognize and explain different types of morphemes..
3. To distinguish between inflectional and derivational paradigms.
4. To recognize and explain the various word formation mechanisms in the English language.
5. To recognize and explain the different relationships established by inflectional systems
6. To apply theoretical concepts to concrete problems in authentic texts
III. CONTENTS
1. The place of Morphology in the linguistic sciences.
2. Concepts of word, morpheme, allomorph, etc.
3. Morphemic structure.
4. Relationship between morphology and phonology.
5. Processes of inflection and derivation.
6. The Noun Paradigm (Regularity and anomaly in plurality, possession, gender, etc.).
7. The Verb Paradigm (Regularity and anomaly in tense, aspect, type, etc.).
8. The Adjectival Paradigm (Comparative superlative degrees, anomalous cases, etc).
9. The Pronoun Paradigm (Subjective, objective, possessive cases , etc.).
10. Formal devices.
- Inflection.
- Word Order.
- Content Words/ Function Words.
- Suprasegments (stress, intonation, etc).
11. The role of Prosody in disambiguation.
12. Word formation processes.
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IV. METHODOLOGY
- Lectures.
- Case analysis.
- Research project on English Morphology.
V. EVALUATION
- Reading Controls.
- Written Tests.
- Research Project in Morphology.
VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Akmajian, Adrian, Richard Demens, Ann Farmer and Robert Harnish
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MIT Press, 1995
Carter, Ronald, A. Goddard, D. Reah, K. Sanger and M. Bowring
Working with Texts. Routledge, London and New and York, 2001.
Carter, Ronald, R. Hughes and Michael McCarthy
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Echeverria, Max et al Linguistica descriptiva: Textos y ejercicios. Universidad de
Concepcion, 1977.
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Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1953.
Fries, Charles C. American English Grammar. New York: Appleton-Century,
c1940.
Fries, Charles C. The Structure of English. New York: Hartcourt, Brace & World ,
1952.
Francis, W. Nelson The Structure of American English. The Ronald Press Company,
New York, 1958.
Gleason, Henry An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics. Holt, Rinehart and
Winston. Inc., New York, 1961.
Greenbaum, Sidney and Randolph Quirk A Student's Grammar of the English Language. Longman Group
UK, 1995.
Herndon, Jeanne H. A Survey of Modern Grammars. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New
York, 1978.
King Harold English Morphology. Ann Arbor Publishers, Michigan, 1961.
Mathews, P. H. Morphology. Cambridge University Press, 1974.
Quirk, Randolph, et al A Grammar of Contemporary English. Longman, London and New
York, 1972.
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Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik
A Student's Grammar of the English Language. Longman Group
UK, 1995
Quirk, Randolph y S. Greembaum. A University Grammar of English. Longman Group Limited,
London, 1973.
Stageberg, Norman An Introductory English Grammar. New York: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, 1971.
Stockwell, Robert P., J. Donald Bowen & John W. Martin
The Grammatical Structures of English and Spanish.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1965.
Study guides, exercises and worksheets developed by the instructor.
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