domingo, 4 de julho de 2010

OPENING POST

This blog keeps track of what happens every Saturday  starting July 3rd  in Estudos Sintáticos de Língua Inglesa.

Cambridge makes good reading matter. - Parsing to disambiguate.

Assigned readings:  LOCK - Syntax as a subfield of Linguistics
                              BERK - Basic concepts

Task: an outline of each text to be posted here due on July 9th.

July 10th - class study of  MASTER Groups of words and  The Determiner System.

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  1. Este comentário foi removido pelo autor.

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  2. Teacher,
    I am trying to post, or to include my outlines, but I cannot.
    can you help me?

    thanks.

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  3. Dears,
    below please find the URLs with my outlines for next class, july 09th.

    http://syntaxmarciakruse.blogspot.com/2010/07/outline-july-09th.html
    http://syntaxmarciakruse.blogspot.com/2010/07/blog-post.html

    thanks

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  4. Hi People,

    Here goes the adress of my blog with the outline from last class

    http://syntaxenglish.blogspot.com

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  5. Hello!
    I´m hery too!
    Teacher, can I ask you a question?
    thanks

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  6. I am confuse about the expressions on text: CONV, FICT, NEWS and ACAD.
    Tell me if I am correct:
    CONV - conversation
    FICT - fiction
    NEWS - news
    ACAD - academic texts

    thanks

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  7. Hello!! That's good! I'm trying to post my outlines... Finally, I'm getting...

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  8. Responding to you all in one post:
    BIBER , CONRAD, LEECH's work Student grammar of spoken and written English refers to several "registers", such as CONV, FICT, NEWS and ACAD - and yes, Marcia got the idea - in order to give a broad view of the distribution of the use of the structure on focus in each chapter. taking this into consideration...
    QUESTION TO YOU ALL: What kind of grammar(book) is theirs ?

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  9. Thanks for the answer, teacher.

    About your question, in my opinion it is functional, because the authors use examples related to the context.

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  10. Hello, I´m here too!!! I´m trying to answer rhe question posted!!!
    Josiéle

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  11. I'm trying to post the question too...

    I think that is the notional subject is an empty grammatical element as it has no lexical meaning. But still functioning as a subject, or rather, as it is placed before the verb - in declarative sentences - there behaves like a grammatical subject.

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  12. Yes, it relates to context. Is it prescriptive or descriptive?

    The authors use the term REGISTER, as in "frequency across registers" , where "register" values are
    CONV, FICT, NEWS and ACAD.

    For a definition of the term REGISTER, please check http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/messeas/regrep/node2.html

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  13. Sorry, but is it to post here ou there?

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  14. it is best to post there, as a comment to EXISTENTIAL THERE.
    We' re starting, let's adjust. I'm copying airan's post to that area now.

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  15. Teacher,

    It is descriptive grammar because it is related to the context and it also refers to the structure of a language as it is actually used by speakers and writers.

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  16. it is related to descriptive grammar beacuse of the contex which refers to the structure.

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  17. Finally, I got!

    This is my official blog: http://profairan.blogspot.com/

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