Fall 2003

Fu Jen Catholic University

Instructor: Kawai Chui  (徐嘉慧)

Syntax: Discourse and Grammar

COURSE OBJECTIVE

      This course introduces the discourse-and-grammar approach to the study of grammar, exploring how grammatical forms are structured in daily use.

REQUIREMENTS

1.      Students are required to discuss the reading materials.

2.      Students need to present their data analysis in class.

3.      Students need to transcribe a stretch of spoken data about fifteen minutes in length.

4.      Students need to write an original term paper based on spoken data.

GRADING

1.      Class discussion

2.      Transcription

3.      An original term paper

COURSE OUTLINE

1.      Introduction: interaction between grammar and discourse

2.      Transcription: intonation units

3.      Turn Organization

4.      Syntax in Discourse

5.      Word Order: clausal order and adverbial order

6.      Topic Structure

7.      Grounding

8.      Definiteness

9.      Numeral Classifiers

10.  Discourse Markers

11.  Connectives

12.  Repair

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