English Department Curriculum: S Y N T A X 2 Semester: V 2 hours lecture + 2 hours practice (per week) _____________________________________ Sentences and clauses Sentences

Clauses

Classification of sentences according to their function (or purpose of communication): Declarative sentences (or statements) Interrogative sentences (or questions) Imperative sentences (or commands) Exclamatory sentences (or exclamations) Classification of sentences according to their structure: Simple sentences Complex sentences Compound sentences Complex-compound sentences Subordination and coordination

Independent (or main) and dependent (or subordinate) clauses Syntactical functions of (subordinate) clauses Classification of subordinate clauses according to their function: Nominal (or Noun) clauses (NCl) functioning as S, SC, DO, IO, OC, PrepC, AdjC Relative (or Adjectival or Adjective) clauses (RelCl or AdjCl) functioning as PostMod in NPs Types of relative clauses: restrictive (or defining) and non-restrictive (or nondefining) Adverbial (or Adverb) clauses functioning as A Finite, non-finite and verbless clauses Types of non-finite clauses: infinitive clauses (InfCl), past participal clauses (PastPart Cl), present participal clauses (PresPart Cl), gerundial clauses (GerCl)

Sentence/Clause elements: Subject (S), predicate (P) Predicator (V), subject complement (SC), direct object (DO), indirect object (IO),
object complement (OC), adjunct (A) Basic sentence patterns Word order Inversion (full and partial) Postponement (extraposition) Ellipsis and substitution Agreement Cleft and pseudo-cleft sentences Existential sentences

Transformational-generative grammar (TGG)

Bibliography:

Surface and deep structure Phrase structure rules and transformation rules Case grammar

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