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The lecture aims at making students more aware of the interconnections between grammatical constructions and other aspects of language such as phonetics, semantics and pragmatics.

Analysis of selected grammatical phenomena  with an eye to thei relations to other aspets of language.

Frontal teaching. Regular attendance is particularly recommended.

Final written exam, open questions

Mira Ariel. 2008. Pragmatics and Grammar. Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5.

Melanie J. Bell – Ingo Plag. 2012. “Informativeness is a determinant of compound stress in English”. Journal of Linguistics 48: 485-520.

Jon Gajewski – Yael Sharvit. 2012. “In defense of the grammatical approach to local implicatures”. Natural Language Semantics 20: 31-57.

Miriam Taverniers . 2011. “The syntax-semantics interface in systemic functional grammar: Hallyday’s interpretation of the Hjelmslevian model of stratification”. Journal of Pragmatics 43: 1100-1126.

Gabriella Vigliocco – Robert J. Hartsuiker. 2002. “The Interplay of Meaning, Sound, and Syntax in Sentence Production”. Psychological Bulletin 128/3: 442-472.

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BA "old" (2009): VO 2: English Usage and/or Applied Linguistics

Teacher Training Programme "old" ("2001): VO 1: Applied Linguistics (Survey)