Descriptive Grammar of Language B - French - level 2 3201-1GRMBF1
The course familiarizes students with basic notions in descriptive grammar of French language (with strong emphasis on functional, syntax and morphological approach).
The course familiarizes students with basic notions in descriptive grammar of French language (with strong emphasis on functional, syntax and morphological approach). Main part of the course is the review of basic features of French language grammar system, including: (i) main parts of speech and word croups connected with them; (ii) basic sentence patterns; (iii) discursive functions of basic types of main sentences; (iv) grammatical, semantic and pragmatical aspects associated with main sentence and clauses; (v) grammatical aims used for distribution of information within and outside of a sentence. The subject of the course's second part covers topics related to compound sentences and its logical reactions: expressing an aim, cause, effect, concession, comparison. Second part of the course also familiarizes students with descriptive apparatus of a compound sentence with the use of generative trees.
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
Student has a comprehensive knowledge how to analyse a sentence from a traditional normative as well as linguistics point of view.
Student understands what is the author's intention and what are the mechanisms of the language system which the intention is based on.
Student can comprehensively analyse and explain how and why appropriate structures correspond to given sequences, and by that understands transitions from deep to superficial structures.
He/she can describe the French grammar system from formal and functional point of view.
Assessment criteria
- exam
- two unacknowledged absences
Bibliography
1. J. DUBOIS, Grammaire structurale du français (3 ouvrages : le nom, le verbe, la phrase), Larousse, 1969.
2. R. Eluerd, Grammaire descriptive de la langue française, Arman Colin, 2012.
3. M. GREVISSE, Le bon usage, 12ème éd. refondue par A. Goosse, éd. Duculot, Paris, 1986.
4. M. RIEGEL, J.-C. PELLAT, R. RIOUL, Grammaire méthodique du français, P.U.F., Paris, 1994, et collection « Quadrige », 2001.
5. R.L. WAGNER, J. PINCHON, Grammaire du français classique et moderne, Hachette, Paris, 1962.
6. H. WEINRICH, Grammaire textuelle du français, Didier Hatier, 1989.