Grammar Seminar

The seminar guides students through the basics of linguistic research methodology (gathering the linguistic data, different language tools, quantitative and qualitative analysis, interpretation of results).
The course covers a variety of topics from English linguistics in the frame of different contemporary theoretical approaches. The topics that are covered during the course include: noun phrase (e.g., the use of articles, word-formation processes, Saxon-genitive); verb phrase (e.g., aspect, delexicalised verbs); adjectival, adverbial and prepositional phrase; punctuation; sentence analysis; semantic roles (theta-roles); logical operators, functional sentence perspective; linguistic variation; set expressions; corpus analysis, etc.
The seminar work helps students develop and acquire the competences to use methods of scientific research and the ability to analyse and synthesise.

Linguistic Metodology
Brezina, Vaclav. 2018. Statistics in Corpus Linguistics. A Practical Guide. Cambridge: CUP. COBISS.SI-ID - 68433762
Gómez, Pascual Cantos. 2013. Statistical Methods in Language and Linguistic Research. Sheffield; Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing Ltd. COBISS.SI-ID - 26504231
Rasinger, Sebastian M. 2013. Quantitative Research in Linguistics. An Introduction. Bloomsbury

Individual chapters from the following reference books (depending on topic of the seminar paper):
Biber, Douglas. (2007) Longman grammar of spoken and written English. Harlow: Longman. Izbrana poglavja (3, 9, 11, 12). COBISS.SI-ID – 35795042
Bloor, Thomas and Meriel Bloor. (1995) The Functional Analysis of English. London: Arnold. COBISS.SI-ID - 2269026
Downing, Angela and Philip Locke. (1995) A University Course in English Grammar. New York: Phoenix. COBISS.SI-ID – 7721058
Greenbaum, Sidney. (1996) The Oxford English Grammar. Oxford: OUP. COBISS.SI-ID - 1707106
Halliday, M.A.K. (2004) An Introduction to Functional Grammar. 3rd ed. London: Arnold. COBISS.SI-ID – 28905826
Huddleston, R. & Geoffrey K. Pullum. (2010) The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: CUP. COBISS.SI-ID – 44999778
Martin, J.R., Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, and Clare Painter. (1997) Working with Functional Grammar. London: Arnold. COBISS.SI-ID - 2806626
Quirk, R. et al. (2008) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman. COBISS.SI-ID – 3017416
Sinclair, John et al. (1990) Collins Cobuild English Grammar. London: Collins. COBISS.SI-ID - 7218786
Swan, Michael. (2016) Practical English Usage. 4th ed. Oxford: OUP. COBISS.SI-ID – 64669794