Code: | CL022 | Acronym: | SINT1 |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies |
Course/CS Responsible: | Bachelor in Language Sciences |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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CL | 25 | CL - Study Plan | 2 | - | 6 | 4 |
To study the basic notions in Syntax in a comparative approach.
At the end of the curricular unit, students should 1. have strengthened the knowledge of the essential syntactic concepts, some which already taught in Basics of Grammatical Analysis; 2. acquired the theoretical and methodological basis to analyse the various syntactic aspects of the affirmative and declarative sentence; 3. obtained the capacity to analyse data from Portuguese and from other Romance and German languages.
1. Basic concepts in Syntax
1.1. Word classes
1.2. Phrase structure and syntactic categories
1.3. Head and phrase categories
1.4. Syntactic functions: main syntactic functions in Portuguese and their properties
1.5. Patterns of word order.
1.6. Portuguese as a SVO language.
2. Verbs in the clause
2.1. Categorial selection or subcategorisation.
2.2. Thematic selection; thematic roles.
2.3. Verb subclasses
2.4. Complements and adjuncts
3. Some constructions involving the change of position or number of arguments in null subject and non-null subject languages
3.1. Subject inversion
3.2. Impersonal or “nominative “ “se”
3.3. Passive: “classic” passive; the "se” passive; personal and impersonal passives
3.4. The causative/anticausative alternation and the “ergative “se”
3.5. Predicative clauses.
3.6. Clauses with "parecer" 'to seem. Subject raising.
Theory classes; practical classes; tutorials.
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Exame | 50,00 |
Teste | 50,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
Designation | Time (hours) |
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Estudo autónomo | 108,00 |
Frequência das aulas | 54,00 |
Total: | 162,00 |
Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law.
Two tests throughout the semester counting for 50% and a final exam counting for 50%.
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
Only tests or final exams can be subject to repetition or grade improvement.
Not applicable.