Course Overview
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Course Synopsis
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Learning English means acquiring certain skills such as having good vocabulary awareness, being competent at reading, writing a variety of papers, listening and speaking. Morphology and Syntax, as a subject, holds much significance in English Language teaching since it aims to produce linguistically correct and able speakers or users of English. Morphology concerns the representation of words and the units of which words are composed i.e. morphemes whereas syntax refers to the rules that govern the ways in which words combine to form phrases, clauses, and sentences. Thus, the course aims to enable students to explore the theoretical as well as underlying principles that govern English language.
The contents of this course include a comprehensive introduction to morphology, morphological structures and their derivations, derivation and semantics, morphological productivity and the mental lexicon, relationship between morphology and psycholinguistics, introduction to syntax, universal grammar, major research issues and pedagogy of morphology and syntax.
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Course Learning Outcomes
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At the end of this course, the students would be able to:
- understand the subtle difference between morphology and syntax.
- comprehend the forms of words, and the ways in which words are related to other words of the same language.
- detect the changes of word clauses, understand vocabulary and know the word origins.
- know the ways in which words are put together in sentences to form meaningful structures.
- differentiate among the concepts of head- movement, wh-movement and A-movement.
- explore key research themes and their implications in morphology and syntax.
- devise helpful strategies and techniques for the pedagogy of morphology and syntax.
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Course Calendar
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Week 01
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4
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Abstract Morphological Facts
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6
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Introduction to Morphological Analysis
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8
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Empirical Tests for Wordhood
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10
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Inflection vs. Derivation
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11
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Two Approaches to Morphology
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13
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Morphology and Phonology
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16
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Primary and Secondary Affixes
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17
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Linguistic Exaptation, Levelling, and Analogy
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18
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Morpho-Phonology and Secret Languages
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Week 02
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20
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Motivation and Compositionality
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22
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Other Derivational Processes
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23
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Clipping and Backformation
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24
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Derivation and Structure
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26
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Regular and Irregular Inflections
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28
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Forms of Pronouns & Determiners
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Quiz-I
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31
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Relationship Between Lexemes
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32
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Word Class & Conversion
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33
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Adverb Derived From Adjectives
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34
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Noun Derived from Nouns
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35
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Adjectives Derived from Adjectives
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36
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Verbs Derived from Verbs
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Week 03
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39
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Compound Nouns and Headed and Headless Compounds
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41
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Compounds Containing Bound Combining Forms
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43
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Morphological Structures:Introduction
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44
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Properties of Morphological Structures
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49
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Introduction: Derivation and Semantics
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51
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The Semantics of Derived Lexemes
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52
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The Semantics of Affixation
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53
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The Semantics of Zero Derivation
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54
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English Agent Nouns in –er
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Week 04
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55
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Introduction Inflection
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57
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Inflection versus Derivation
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58
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Inventory of Inflectional Morphology Types: I
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59
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Inventory of Inflectional Morphology Types: II
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Assignment-I
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61
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Lexical Source of English Word Formation
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62
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The Rarity of Borrowed Inflectional Morphology
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63
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Reduction in Inflectional Morphology
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64
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Characteristics of Germanic and Nongermanic Derivations
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65
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Fashions in Morphology
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67
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What is Morphological Productivity?
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68
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Productivity and Structure: Negative Prefixes in English
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69
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Degrees of Productivity
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72
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Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics
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Week 05
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74
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Morphological vs. Syntactic Inflection
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75
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Structural Constraint on Morphological Inflections
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76
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Inflection and Universal Grammar
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77
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Grammatical Function Change
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78
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Productivity in Grammatical Function Change
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80
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The Use of Mental Lexicon
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81
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Acquisition of Morphology
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82
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The Sources of Evidence
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83
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Models of Morphological Knowledge
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84
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Morphological Processing
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85
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The Nature of Language Change Internal
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86
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The Nature of Language Change External
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87
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Historical Sources of Morphology
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88
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Changes in Morphological Rules
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89
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Changes in Word Structure
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Week 06
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90
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Some Notions About Grammar
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Quiz-II
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91
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Some Authorities of Grammatical Tradition
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92
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Concept of Parts of Speech
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93
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Parts of Speech in English
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95
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Problems of Prescriptive Grammar
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96
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Concept of Sentence In Prescriptive Grammar
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101
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Structure of Verb Phrase
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102
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Structure of Adjective Phrase
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103
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Structure of Adverb Phrase
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105
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Tree Structure of a Phrase
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Week 07
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109
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Phrase Structure Rules
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111
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The Great Automatic Grammatizator
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113
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Behaviouristic View the Irrelevance of Rats
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114
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Is Language Restricted to Humans
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116
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A Preordained Language Programme
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117
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Conceivable Innate Grammatical Information
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118
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Transformational Grammar
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119
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The Founder and the Theory
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Mid Term
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121
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Grammatical Categories
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122
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Lexicalsubstantive Categories
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123
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Functional Categories
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Week 08
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127
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Concepts and Misconception
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128
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Use of Linguistic Examples
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129
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Why do Languages have Syntax?
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130
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All Languages have Structure
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131
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Promotion and Demotion
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135
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Principles of Universal Grammar
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141
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Tree Diagram and Phrase Structure Rules
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142
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Subordination in PS Rules
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143
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Sentence and Discourse
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Week 09
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145
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Variations on Basic Sentence Patterns
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149
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Pronominalization & Fronting
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Quiz-III
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151
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Compound & Complex Sentence
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156
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Element After the Head
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159
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Element before the Head
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Week 10
GDB
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166
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Prepositions & Conjunction
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167
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Functions Verb Phrases
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168
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Grammatical Functions in Subject
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169
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Grammatical Function of Predicate
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171
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Predicative Complements
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174
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Adverbial Complements with Intransitive Verbs
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175
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Adverbial Complements with Transitive Verbs
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176
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Predicative Complement + Adverbial Complement a Complex Function
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177
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Verb Patterns and Functions- A Summary
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178
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Sentence Adjuncts and VP-Adjuncts
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179
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Sentence Adjuncts and VP-Adjuncts II
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180
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Function of Clauses Finite Clauses
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Quiz-IV
Week 11
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182
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Non-finite and Verbless Clauses
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186
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Subject-auxiliary Inversion
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189
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Subcategorisation Frames and Wh-movement
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190
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Prepositional Phrases in Wh -questions
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191
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Wh-movement of Subjects
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192
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Indirect Yes No Questions
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193
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Indirect Wh-questions
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196
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The Meaning of Relative Clauses
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197
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Deletion in Relative Clasues
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198
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That in Relative Clasues
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Week 12
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199
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Adverbial Relative and Free Relative
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201
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Reduced Relative Clause
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205
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Movement of Focus Position
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206
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It-extraposition in Active Sentences
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207
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It-extraposition with Non -finite Clauses
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208
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It-extraposition in Verbless Clauses
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209
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It-extraposition with Object Clauses
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210
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Subject verb inversion
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212
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Extraposition from NP
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216
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Substitution By Pro-Forms
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Week 13
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219
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Verb Gapping And Backward Gapping
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220
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Non-Finite Clauses NON-FINITE CLAUSES; RAISING AND CONTROL
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221
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Non-finite clauses non-finite clauses; raising and control.
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222
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Non-finite subordinate clauses with lexical subjects
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223
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Non-finite clauses without lexical subjects
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227
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Raising with intransitive verbs and with adjectives
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229
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CONTROL Non-lexical subjects
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231
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Subject and object control
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234
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Reanalysis a problem of bracketing
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Week 14
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235
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Preposition & particles I
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236
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Preposition & particles II
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237
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Preposition & particles III
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238
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Concluding Preposition or Particles
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239
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Concluding Preposition or Particles II
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240
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Prepositional verbs I
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241
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Prepositional verbs II
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242
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Prepositional verbs III
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244
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Levels of structure (1)
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245
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Levels of Noun Phrase
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246
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Levels of structure (2)
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251
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Prepositional phrases
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Week 15
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253
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Discontinuous strings
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256
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A full sentence in X-bar
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257
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Quantity of sentence structure
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258
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Morphology in wider setting
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259
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Diachronic Morphology.
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260
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Morphology in Language Acquisition
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261
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Asking questions about syntax.
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262
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What questions to investigate
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263
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What questions to investigate II
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264
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Pedagogical aspects of morphology & syntax
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266
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Developing reading skills
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267
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Better understanding of the language teaching
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268
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Development of syntactic skill
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269
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The knowledge of Morphosyntax
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Final Term
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