The second term will introduce  the students to the second of the three domains of description of the French language - the verb phrase and the simple sentence.

1. Definition of a verb with its lexical features.

2. Grammatical categories of the verb:

a) the tenses - their different values,

b) the modes,

c) the aspects: their definition and the ways of expressing

d) the diathesis,

e) the person,

f) . the number.

3. Verbal constructions: pronominal and impersonal construction types. 

4. Generative-transformational representation of the verb phrase:

a) transcription rule of the verb phrase (GV),

b) transcription rule of the "Aux" (auxiliairy) symbol,

c/ other components.

5. Prepositional phrase  (SP) and the  problemof its belonging to the verb phrase, the noun phrase, the adjectival phrase or to the sentence. 

6. The adverb : general description, formal and semantic classment, gradatoin as the only grammatical caterory concerning it.

7. The oppositon between the verb argument and the sentence adjunct.

8. Less typical sentences: nominal sentnce, presentative sentences (beginning with: "voilà").

9. Uninflected parts of speech:

a) prepositions 

b/ conjunctions (coordinating, subordinating; the conjunctions vs. connectors), 

c/ interjections.

Tthe same programme and the same bibliography equally concerns the classes - the lecture and the classes are complementary.   .

Credit for the lecture: test

Credit for the classes: assiduity, activity, 2 tests.