Course Schedule
Veranstaltungen von Dr. Onwu Inya
Lehrveranstaltungen
Syntax (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Onwu Inya
Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 08:15 - 09:45 | 07.04.2025 - 11.07.2025 | C 5.019 Seminarraum
Inhalt: This course introduces students to fundamental principles of syntax, focusing on English phrase and sentence structures. It explores how words combine to form phrases and sentences, examining key syntactic concepts such as phrase structure, grammatical relations, sentence types, and syntactic variations across regional and national varieties of English. Special emphasis is placed on the role of syntax in language teaching, highlighting its significance in grammar instruction and effective communication. The empirical aspect of the seminar will focus on syntactic variations across different varieties such as Nigerian English, British English, Irish English and so on. The goal of the empirical work is to demonstrate how different speakers form grammatical constituents. Relevant linguistics : an introduction to the structure and use of English for teachers by Paul W. Justice will be the main material for the seminar. This will be supplemented by other texts on syntax. Students will be expected to engage in empirical research, i.e. to collect and analyse data in groups. Specifically, students will be required to work with the spoken sub-corpus of the International Corpus of English (ICE) to account for syntactic variation. This empirical work will form the basis of the module assessment.