Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Morphology - Syntax
2. Language of Instruction:
English
3. Course Code:
ENG513146
4. Credits:
3
5. Course Objectives:
The course aims to develop a solid theoretical foundation and empirical analytical skills in the structure of words and sentences in English. Students will gain a coherent conceptual system of morphology (morpheme types, allomorphy, and word-formation processes) and syntax (constituency, phrase structure, clause types, diagnostics, and dependency relations), and will learn to apply these principles to describe, explain, and evaluate authentic linguistic data in academic and professional contexts. The course also fosters critical thinking, terminological precision, collaborative scholarship, and a commitment to autonomous lifelong learning.
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
The course offers a systematic introduction to English morphology and syntax with a focus on the morphology–syntax interface. The morphology component covers morphemes and allomorphy, derivation and inflection, and word-formation mechanisms such as compounding, conversion, clipping, reduplication, blending, acronyms, and borrowing. The syntax component examines N/V/A/Adv/PP phrase structure, basic X-bar configurations, sentence patterns and clause types (nominal, adjectival, adverbial), constituency diagnostics, and common structural alternations. Authentic academic and business texts are used to ground analysis and interpretation in real data.