Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.
Semester 1 Credit Value: | 20 |
ECTS Credits: | 10.0 |
European Credit Transfer System | |
The aim of this module is for students to acquire a good knowledge of the main changes that have affected the grammar of English during its history. This will include an understanding of the mechanisms by which these changes have come about and their possible causes. Students will also learn how to collect data for the study of grammatical change in English and to critically assess and evaluate current research in the field.
The themes to be covered in the lectures (further discussed/applied in the seminars) will include changes in the structure of NPs, the elements in the verb group, the forms of clausal constituents such as subjects and objects, word order and subordinate clauses, as well as various practical and theoretical issues involved in the study of such changes. There will be some discussion of developments in grammar at medieval stages of the language (Old and Middle English), but there will be a stronger focus on changes in more recent times (the period 1500-today).
Category | Activity | Number | Length | Student Hours | Comment |
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Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 1 | 53:00 | 53:00 | N/A |
Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Lecture | 22 | 1:00 | 22:00 | N/A |
Guided Independent Study | Directed research and reading | 1 | 84:00 | 84:00 | N/A |
Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Small group teaching | 11 | 1:00 | 11:00 | N/A |
Guided Independent Study | Skills practice | 1 | 10:00 | 10:00 | N/A |
Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 1 | 20:00 | 20:00 | N/A |
Total | 200:00 |
Code | Title |
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SEL8329 | Diachronic Syntax |
The lectures will introduce the material listed under the Knowledge Outcomes. In the seminars, this material will be further discussed and illustrated with reference to actual texts and published studies of such texts, contributing further to the Knowledge Outcomes and practising the Skills Outcomes.
The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners
Description | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
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Written exercise | 1 | M | 50 | N/A |
Essay | 1 | A | 50 | N/A |
Rationale will be detailed in the module handbook.