Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Linguistics
- Code
- BBI-ANG-253E
- Title
- Advanced Syntax
- Usual semester
- Both
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Description
- Code for non-international students start with BBN
- Learning outcomes
- This course continues from BBN-ANG-251 Syntax and shares its goals of demonstrating how a theoretical basis can aid linguistic description. As a continuation, it aims to introduce students to more advanced aspects of the language.
- Course content
- The contents of the course may vary from semester to semester depending on how the lecturer chooses to spread the material between the Syntax and the Advanced Syntax lectures. Topics to be covered may include advanced material concerning: the structure of the VP and its extensions; the structure of the clause and its extensions; the treatment of aspectual auxiliaries and elements which occupy the ‘middle field’ of the clause such as negatives and adverbs; movement processes involved in English; the use and structure of left peripheral parts of the sentence in presenting discourse aspects of meaning such as asking questions, focusing and topicalising; the structure of English non-finite clauses.
- Assessment method
- The course is assessed by end of semester exam usually consisting of multiple choice questions based on the content of the lectures and the course reading.
- Bibliography
- Newson, Mark, Marianna Hordós, Dániel Papp, Krisztina Szecsényi, Gabriella Tóth and Veronika Vincze 2006 Basic English Syntax with Exercises, Bölcsész Konzorcium, Budapest.