Grammaire de base de la langue anglaise

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Grammaire de base de la langue anglaise (GERM1123)

Plan du cours 2000-2001

WEEK 1
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. Course objectives	List of books
1.2 What is grammar?	a book
	the contents of the book (a theory of language description)
	scope (morphology, syntax, phonology, semantics, spelling, pragmatics, …)
1.3. In the Oxford English Grammar (Greenbaum, 1996)	all aspects treated
In GERM1123	mainly chapters 3 and 5
1.4. Different types of grammar (Reference Grammar vs Pedagogical Grammar)	What are the differences?
	Which type of grammar for us in the course?
1.5. Theories of grammar
1.6. The data for grammar (introspection, corpora BC and AC, etc)
1.7 Reasons for studying grammar	general knowledge that we should have about ourselves and the world we live in
	ability to adjust the language to different contexts
	linguistic curriculum
	improve writing abilities
	interpretation of texts (lit. and non-literary)
	study of one’s own grammar is helpful in studying the grammar of a foreign language (! only valid for NS of the language in this particular context)
II. THE GRAMMATICAL HIERARCHY
2.1 Sentences, clauses, phrases, words
2.2 Above the sentence and below the word

WEEK 2
II. THE GRAMMATICAL HIERARCHY
2.2 Above the sentence and below the word	Text and morphemes
	Free morphemes and bound morphemes (affixes)
	Prefixes and suffixes
	Derivational and inflectional morphemes
2.3 A closer look at sentences	2.3.1 Traditional classification of sentences: simple, compound, complex
	2.3.2 Four types of sentences, four ways of communicating
	2.3.2.1 Declarative sentences – statements
	2.3.2.2 Interrogative sentences – questions
	- yes/no questions
	wh- questions
	alternative questions
	tag questions
	2.3.2.3 Imperative sentences – directives
	- second person imperatives
	- first and third person imperatives
	2.3.2.4 Exclamative sentences – exclamations
	- exclamative sentences (what/how)
	- exclamative phrases (such/so)
	- high or low degree
	2.3.3 Correlation between sentence types and communicative uses
	- rhetorical questions as statements
	- declarative sentences as questions
	2.3.4. Speech acts

WEEK 3
	2.3.5. Sentences and voice: active / passive
	2.3.5.1. Morphology
	2.3.5.2. Be-passive, get-passive
	2.3.5.3. Agentive and agentless passive
	2.4. The basic constituents of the sentence
	2.4.1. The constant constituents: subject and verb
	2.4.2. The complements: objects and predicatives
	2.4.3. The adverbials

WEEK 4
	2.5. Rearranging the basic structures
	2.5.1. Cleft sentences
	2.5.2. Extraposed subjects
	2.5.3. Existential sentences
	2.5.4. Left dislocation
	2.5.5. Right dislocation
	2.5.6. Subject-verb inversion
	2.5.7. Subject-operator inversion
	2.5.8. Exchanged positions of direct object and object predicative
	2.5.9. Ellipsis
III. THE VERB
	3.1. Introduction to verbs: mood, modality, tense, aspect, voice, number and person

Week 5
	3.2 THE PRESENT TENSES
	3.2.1 Simple present
	a) morphology
	b) uses
	c) note
	3.2.2 Present progressive/continuous
	a) morphology
	b) uses
	c) note

Week 6
	3.2.3 Present perfect
	a) morphology & pronunciation
	b) uses
	c) note
	3.2.4 Present perfect progressive/continuous
	a) morphology
	b) uses
	c) notes

Week 7
	3.3 THE PAST TENSES
	3.3.1 Simple past
	a) morphology
	b) uses
	c) notes
	3.3.2 Past progressive/continuous
	a) morphology
	b) uses
	c) notes
	3.3.3 Past perfect
	a) morphology
	b) uses
	c) notes
	3.3.4 Past perfect progressive
	a) morphology
	b) uses
	c) notes
	3.3.5 Present and past tenses in context : exercises

Week 8
	3.4 EXPRESSIONS OF FUTURITY
	Introduction :
	- distinction between futurity and modality
	- from mere prediction in the future to absolute certainty
	- expressing the future from a present or past perspective
	3.4.1 ‘Will’ future
	3.4.1 ‘Will’ simple future
	3.4.2 ‘Will’ future progressive
	3.4.3 ‘Will’ future perfect
	3.4.4 ‘Will’ future perfect progressive
	3.4.2 ‘Be going to’ future
	3.4.3 Present progressive
	3.4.4 ‘Be to’ future
	3.4.5 Simple present
	3.4.6 Expressing futurity in context : exercises

Week 9
	3.5. Verbs: summary
IV. MODALITY
	4.1. Introduction
	4.2. Modality and mood
	4.2.1. Subjunctive
	4.2.2. Imperative
	4.3. Modality and modal auxiliaries (& semi-auxiliaries)
	4.3.1. Certainty
	4.3.2. Possibility, impossibility
	4.3.3. Permission
	4.3.4. Obligation

Week 10
	4.3.5. Absence of obligation
	4.3.6. Prohibition
	4.3.7. Ability
	4.3.8. Reproach
	4.3.9. Volition
	4.3.10.Habits
	4.3.11. Offers, requests, invitations
	4.4. Modals in context (exercises)

Week 11
V. CONDITIONAL SENTENCES
	5.1. Introduction
	5.2. Type I : future conditional
	5.2.1. Basic form
	5.2.2. Other forms
	5.3. Type II: hypothetical (unreal) conditional
	5.3.1. Basic form
	5.3.2. Other forms
	5.4. Type III: UNREAL conditional (reproach)
	5.4.1. Basic form
	5.4.2. Other forms
	5.5. Variants: conjunctions other than ‘if’
	5.6. Similarity between type I conditional clauses and temporal clauses

Responsable académique : Sylviane Granger ; Fanny Meunier Analyse : Jean Schumacher Réalisation informatique : Boris Maroutaeff

Dernière mise à jour : 10 janvier 2001