Postgraduate Course: English grammar: a cognitive account (LASC11054)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Classes will provide an account of major topics in the grammar of English from a cognitive linguistics perspective. The topics addressed may vary from year to year, but are likely to include many of the following:
(Pseudo-)cleft and existential 'there' constructions; (non-)finiteness; clause complementation; prepositions and particles; the syntax of middles; auxiliaries; relative clauses; nouns and nominals. |
| Course description |
Not entered
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 44,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
151 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Students will be assessed by means of one extended piece of written work of c.4000 words.
Additional exercises will be provided, but will not count towards the overall mark for the course.
Assignment Deadline: Thursday 3rd December 2015, 12 noon
Assignment Return Date: 15th January 2016 |
| Feedback |
One-on-one meetings with each student to plan and discuss coursework.
Comments provided on submitted assessments. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- understand how Modern English grammar works
- prepare for more advanced work involving syntactic theories
- gain a basic grounding in aspects of Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar
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Reading List
Hilpert, Martin. 2013. Construction Grammar and its Application to English. Edinburgh: EUP.
Hoffmann, Thomas and Graeme Trousdale, eds. 2013. The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. New York: OUP.
Barlow, Michael and Suzanne Kemmer (eds.) 2000. Usage-based models of language. Stanford: CSLI.
Croft, William. 2001. Radical Construction Grammar. Oxford: OUP.
Croft, William and D. Alan Cruse. 2004. Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP.
Evans, Vyvyan and Melanie Green. 2006. Cognitive Linguistics: an introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Goldberg, Adele E. 1995. Constructions: a Construction Grammar approach to argument structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Goldberg, Adele E. 2006. Constructions
at work: the nature of generalization in language. Oxford: OUP.
Langacker, Ronald. 2008. Cognitive Grammar: an introduction. Oxford: OUP.
Taylor, John R. 2002. Cognitive Grammar. Oxford: OUP.
Ungerer, Friedrich and Hans-Jörg Schmid. 1996. An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics. London: Longman.
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Graeme Trousdale. 2013. Constructionalization and Construction Changes. Oxford: OUP. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Attend all lectures as scheduled |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Graeme Trousdale
Tel: (0131 6)50 3599
Email: Graeme.Trousdale@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk |
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