Introduction to basic grammatical concepts and terminology.
Specifically intended for students planning to take a foreign
language or linguistics. Does not count toward the linguistics
major or minor. This course introduces fundamentals of grammar,
with primary emphasis on description of English. We will discuss
parts of speech, the structure of phrases (modifiers and
complements), the components of clauses (subject and predicate),
types of clauses, types of subordination, and constructions
which vary the order or relations of words, such as passive
voice. The course also discusses common differences between
languages with respect to basic phenomena such as word order,
how questions are formed, agreement, tenses, and so forth. The
primary goals of the course are: first, to bring to the
studentís awareness the fact that many properties of all
languages can be described in terms of a limited set of basic
concepts, and second, to develop the studentís skill in
analyzing sentences, using English as an example. Re