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DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR (1st term) - NOUN PHRASE

This course introduces students to the first part of the description of the French language, i.e. to the noun phrase.

The second term will be devoted to the verb phrase as well as to the simple sentence, and the third - to complex sentences.

Problems analyzed during the first term:

1. Morphology and syntax.

2. Parts of speech and the ways of classing them.

3. Word formation as a way to enrich the vocabulary.

4. The noun phrase and  its place within the sentence; its syntaxic functions.

5. The noun and its grammatical categories.

6. The description of nouns regarding their relationships with other items - the matrix of lexical features.

7. Formal analysis of the noun phrase, inspired by the generative-transformational grammar.

8. Analysis of articles.

9. The adjective and its grammatical categories.

10. Classes of adjectives.

11. Syntactic functions of the adjective phrase.  

12. Analysis of the noun phrase and its representing in a syntagmatic graph.

13. Pronouns, their classes, their properties and syntactic functions.

Credit for the lecture: test

Credit for the classes: assiduity, tests.

Bibliography:

Apothéloz D., 2002, La construction du lexique français. Principes de morphologie dérivationnelle, Paris, Ophrys.

Arrivé M., Gadet F., Galmiche M., 1986, La grammaire d'aujourd'hui. Paris, Flammarion.

Dąmbska-Prokop U., 1993, Introduction à la grammaire nouvelle du français, Viridis, Kraków

Dubois J. et alii, 2000, Grammaire du français contemporain, Paris, Larousse.

Dubois J., Dubois-Charlier F., 1970, Eléments de grammaire française: syntaxe, Larousse.

Dubois J., Lagane R., 1973, La nouvelle grammaire du français, Larousse.

Flaux N., Van de Velde D., 2000, Les noms en français: esquisse de classement, Paris, Ophrys.

Riegel M., Pellat J.-Ch., Rioul R., 1994, Grammaire méthodique du français, Paris, PUF.



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