Study Programmes 2016-2017
| LGER0104-2 | ||
| Construction grammar and its application to English (Construction grammar and its application to English) | ||
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Duration :
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| 30h Th | ||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Lieselotte Brems | ||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language | ||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester | ||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||
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Learning unit contents :
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| This class introduces students to Construction Grammar and its application to English specifically. After a general introduction to how and why the framework emerged, we will see how it has extended beyond its original domain and methods.
Using examples from English, we will build up an argumentation for why we could think of our knowledge of a language in terms of a network of constructions on different levels of schematicity and complexity. We will see how it applies to verb argument structure, but also morphology, information structure, language acquisition, variation and change. |
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Learning outcomes of the learning unit :
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| Students should see how a constructional approach to language differs from other frameworks while it also shares some basic tenets with other frameworks. They should see the advantages as well as drawbacks of this approach, which, moreover, is itself a collection of approaches rather than one homogeneous theory. | ||
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| This class will be organised as a seminar in which students sometimes have to prepare texts in advance. | ||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| face-to-face | ||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Martin Hilpert, Construction Grammar and its Application to English (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language). 2014. Edinburg: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-748-67584-5 (hardback)/978-0-748-67585-2 (paperback). 220 pp. | ||
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| written exam/paper | ||
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| 'ex cathedra' sessions + seminars with interaction | ||
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Contacts :
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| lbrems@ulg.ac.be | ||