1. Salman bin Abdulaziz University College of Science and Humanity Studies, Al-Kharj

2. Department of English Level8 (2nd Semester)

3. Course Symbol & Code: ENG4860 Course Title :Syntax& Morphology

4. Prepared by Teacher: Bahia Khalifa Ibrahim

5. Course Objectives: The course will introduce the students to the fundamental syntactic and morphological concepts such as the syntactic categories, syntactic functions and tree diagram…etc. The course also discusses some word- formation processes (coinage, borrowing and blending…etc.

6. It will also go through various types of morphemes to tackle some problems concerning the morphological description.

7. Students who successfully complete this course will Identify the basic notion in syntax such as (syntactic constituents, syntactic functions, syntactic categories and so forth) Analyze simple, complex and compound sentences into their constituents showing the syntactic functions and categories.

8. Draw tree diagrams for simple, complex and compound English sentences on the basis of phrase structure rules. Write transformation rules for the derivation of surface structures from deep structures. Resolve ambiguity in some ambiguous structures.

9. Topics to be covered  Language and levels of Language Analysis  Morphology  Types of Morphemes  Morphological description

10.  Morphs & allomorphs  Words & word-formation Processes  Syntax  Parts of speech  Phrases and Sentences

11.  Grammar  Types of grammar  Structural analysis  Generative grammar Deep & surface Structures

12. Symbols used in syntactic description Transformational grammar

13. Textbooks Aarts, Flor and Jan Aarts. English Syntactic Structures.1982.Pergamon Press, New York. Thomas, Lind. Beginning Syntax. 1993. Sasil Blackwell Inc. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

14. General References The study of Language 4 th ed. George Yule

15. Important Sites http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/p owerpoint.htm www.Wikipedia.com www.wiseGeek.com www.about.com

16. http://faculty.sau.edu.sa/b.mohammed @ Kurdofania edmodo group:z9war6

17. Assessments First Quiz 5 Second Quiz 5 Mid-term 20 Assignments 10 PowerPoint presentation 10 or term paper Final Exam 50

18. Course Requirements  Attending lectures  Assignments  PowerPoint presentation or term paper  Two quizzes  Mid-term Exam  Final Exam