English Syntax and Semantics (P00786)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : PPL-P-ESSEL

Description of salient syntactic and semantic phenomena in English; their analysis in terms of current linguistic theory.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Language Sciences, (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Schedule I)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 9 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
20/09/2006	12:10	13:00			1.22, 14 Buccleuch Place

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Wednesday	12:10	13:00	Central
Lecture	Thursday	11:10	13:00	Central
Lecture	Friday	12:10	13:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

First, students will acquire a comprehensive knowledge of the core syntactic phenomena of English - especially those that have significant semantic effects or consequences, such as negation and other phenomena involving scope. And secondly, it will present students with a range of approaches, from the derivational to the representational, in order to show how the relationship between syntax and semantics, and the nature of the syntax-semantics interface has affected granmmatical theorising in a range of different models.