230191 English Syntax (S) (SoSe 2026)

In this course students are introduced to the syntactic structure of English using a generative framework. Following Radford, the course moves from word categories and phrase structure to clause structure, movement, and functional projections, with sustained practice in X-bar theory, tree drawing, and syntactic argumentation.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Identify lexical and functional categories in English
- Construct X-bar–compliant phrase markers
- Analyze constituent structure using standard syntactic tests
- Represent movement, heads, complements, and specifiers in trees
- Provide principled syntactic analyses of English sentences

Requirements for participation, required level

Notwendige Voraussetzungen: FsB vom 15.11.2023 (Einschreibung ab SoSe 2023)
Vor dem Besuch der Veranstaltungen in den Profilmodulen muss der Language Proficiency Test (23-ANG-Basis1) bestanden sein. Im Master of Education gilt diese Voraussetzung mit dem erfolgreichen Masterzugang als erbracht.

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