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Course Syllabus

1. Course number: 2202601 2. Course credit: 3 (3 - 0 - 9) 3. Course title: English Syntax I (ENG SYNTAX I) 4. Faculty/ department: Faculty of Arts/ Department of English 5. Semester: first 6. Year: 2006 7. Instructor: Assistant Professor Pasinee Sornhiran, Ph.D 8. Condition: 9. Course status: required 10. Degree: Master of Arts (English) 11. Degree level: master’s degree 12. Number of hours per week: 3 hours 13. Course description: The grammatical structure of modern English within the structural framework: part of speech identification; sentence analysis; classification of major syntactic structures; classification of sentences in conversation. 14. Course outline: 14.1 Course objectives: the main objectives of this course are threefold: 1. To enable the students to identify various parts of speech through structural signals; 2. To introduce the five major syntactic structures of the English language to the students; 3. To enable the students to recognize various types of utterances in conversation.

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14.2 Course schedule: week 1 Pretest, Introduction, ch. 5 History of Structural Grammar week 2 Principles of Structural Grammar, Lexical and Structural Meanings week 3 Five Signals of Syntactic Structure

week 4 Nouns week 5 Verbs week 6 Adjectives week 7 Adverbs week 8 ch. 6 Five Syntactic Structures; IC Analysis week 9 Structure of Modification: Noun as Head week 10 Verb as Head, Other Types of Head week 11 Structure of Predication week 12 Structure of Complementation week 13 Structures of Subordination and Coordination week 14 ch. 7 Sentences, Situation-Sentences week 15 Sequence-Sentences, Response-Sentences week 16 Revision 14.3 Teaching-learning method: lectures and discussions with practices 14.4 Evaluation: The final grades will be computed from the following: 1. homework and classwork 40% 2. final exams 60% Total 100% 15. Bibliography 15.1 Required text: chapters 5-7 from The Structure of American English by W. Nelson Francis Page 3

15.2 Suggested readings: Bloomfield, Leonard. 1933. Language. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. De Saussure, Ferdinand. 1915. Cours de Linguistique Generale. Edited by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye. Paris: Payot. Trans. by Wade Baskin, 1959. Course in General Linguistics. New York: Philosophical Library. Francis, W. Nelson. 1958. The Structure of American English. New York: Ronald Press.

_____. 1952. “Revolution in Grammar.” In Introductory Readings on Language, pp. 391-409. Edited by Wallalce L. Anderson and Norman C. Stageberg. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winstion. Fries, Charles C. 1952. The Structure of English. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. Gleason, Henry A. 1955. An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics. rev. ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Hockett, Charles F. 1958. A Course in Modern Linguistics. New York: Macmillan. Sapir, Edward. 1921. Language. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. _____. 1952. “Sound Patterns in Language.” Language. 1:37-51. 16. Teaching-learning evaluation form: lectures and discussions