French Morphology and Syntax
Linguistics · 3 hrs Lecture
LING-4304 prerequisites
We couldn't read this course's prerequisites into a chain. The wording is under “Requisite courses” below.
Where LING-4304 counts
Counts toward 1 more as one option among several, not as a course you must take:
- LING 3-YEAR BA
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Description
Based on the analysis of modern French, this course presents fundamental linguistic concepts, including nature and types of monemes, distributional and syntactic properties of morphemes, and the French verbal system (mood, tense and aspect). The syntax of simple, compound and complex sentences is studied in a transformational-generative perspective, as it applies to French. At the Honours level, in FREN-4206/LING-4304, additional approaches (mainly the functional and the cognitive) are used to examine complex utterances in various oral and written styles.
Requisite courses
6 credit hours of 2000-level French language/linguistics or permission of instructor [prerequisite(s)].
Restrictions
Honours Form Required. Students may not hold credit for this course and FREN-4112 | FREN-4206 | LING-4302.
Cross-listed
FREN-4206(3).
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