Syntax I

Code:

CL022

Acronym:

SINT1

Instance: 2019/2020 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Language Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CL	22	CL - Study Plan	2	-	6	4

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To study the basic notions in Syntax in a comparative approach. 

Learning outcomes and competences

 

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.

Working method

Presencial

Program

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.

Mandatory literature

Brito, Ana Maria; "Portugiesisch: Morphosyntax. Morfo-sintaxe" in HOLTUS, G., METZELTIN, M. & SCHMITT, C. (orgs.) Lexikon der Romanistishen Linguistik (LRL), vol. VI, 2, pp. 233-240. , Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen , 1994
CUNHA, C. & CINTRA, L. F. ; Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo, João Sá da Costa, Lisboa, 1984. ISBN: nao tem
Duarte, I.; Língua Portuguesa, Instrumentos de Análise, Lisboa, U. Aberta, 2000., Universidade Aberta, 2000. ISBN: 972-674-322-2
DUARTE, I. e BRITO, A.M. ; “Sintaxe” in FARIA, I. H.; PEDRO, E. R.; DUARTE, I.; GOUVEIA, C. (orgs.) – Introdução à Linguística Geral e Portuguesa, Lisboa, Caminho, 1996, pp.247- 302., Caminho, 1996. ISBN: 972-21-1048-9
Eliseu, André; Sintaxe do Português, Col. O Essencial sobre Língua Portuguesa, Caminho, Lisboa, 2008
Mateus, M. H. et alii ; Gramática da Língua Portuguesa, 5ª ed., Caminho, Lisboa, 2003. ISBN: 972-21-0445-4
Raposo, E. P. et al; Gramática do Português , Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2013. ISBN: ISBN 978-972-31-1457-7

Comments from the literature

Other readings may be advised during the course.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theory classes; practical classes; tutorials.

keywords

Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics > Grammar

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Teste	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	108,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law.

Calculation formula of final grade

Two tests throughout the semester counting for 50% and a final exam counting for 50%.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable.

Classification improvement

Only tests or final exams can be subject to repetition or grade improvement.

Observations

Not applicable.