Syllabus
1.Sentences, clauses and phrases; functional and formal description of clauses 2.Sentence types and discourse functions 3.Negation 4.Clause patterns, verb valency, semantic roles of clause elements 5.Clause elements – formal and semantic description: the subject, object, adverbial, attribute, apposition, complement
Annotation
Drawing on their knowledge of morphology, the course familiarizes students with the basic units of the syntactic description of present-day English. it focuses on the structure and functions of the simple sentence (sentence types and discourse functions, clause patterns and clause elements, negation). A contrastive point of view, comparing English and Czech syntax, is employed in the description of selected topics.