Matter

Lecture 1 The Subject Matter of Grammar
The Subject Matter of Grammar... Grammar is the study of the structure of human language Grammar studies the formal properties of words and sentences It cosists of morphology and syntax Morphology describes how words are structured and...

1. The Evolution of English Grammars
2. The Asymmetry of a Linguistic Sign
3. Transformational and Transformational Generative Grammar
4. Semantic Syntax
5. The Oppositional Method
6. The Distributional method
7. The Transformational Method
8. The Method of Deep and Surface Structures
9. The Componential Method
10. The Contextual Method
11. The Morphological Structure of ME
12. The Classifications of Morphemes
13. Paradigmatics and Syntagmatics
14. Classifications of Parts of Speech.
15. Notionals and Functionals
16. Heterogeneity
17. The Category of Gender.
18. The Category of Number
19. Debated Problems within the Category of Case
20. Debated Problems
21. The Functions of Articles in a Sentence
22. The General Properties of a Verb
23. Classifications of Tenses
24. The Future Tense
25. The Present Tense
26. The Category of Aspect
27. The Category of Voice
28. The Subjunctive Mood
29. Points of Similarities with the Finites
30. Points of Differences with the Finites
31. Types of Syntax
32. Devices of Connecting Words in a Phrase
33. Debated Problems within the Theory of the Phrase
34. THE THEORY OF THE SIMPLE SENTENCE
35. The Definition of a Sentence
36. Syntactic Modelling of the Sentence
37. Semantic Modelling of the Sentence
38. The Notion of a Syntactic Paradigm
39. Structural Classification of Simple Sentences
40. Syntactic Ties
41. Within a simple sentence we distinguish primary and secondary (independent/ dependent) elements, the structural nucleus and its adjuncts.
42. Syntactic Processes
43. The Principal Parts of a Simple Sentence
44. An Object
45. Debated Problems within a Simple Sentence
46. A COMPOSITE SENTENCE
47. A Compound Sentence
48. The Status of the Subordinate Clause.
49. Classifications of Subordinate Clauses.
50. Types of Subordinate Clauses.
51. Connections between the Principal and the Subordinate Clause.
52. Neutralization between Subordination and Coordination.
53. Communicative Dynamism within a Composite Sentence( Compound and Complex) and a Supra-phrasal Unit.