ClassInfo - Fall 2021 Spanish Classes

Fall 2021 | SPAN 5714 Section 001: Theoretical Foundations of Spanish Syntax (33892)

Instructor(s): Francisco Ocampo
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: Completely Online
Enrollment Requirements:: Graduate Student
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021

Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM

Off Campus

UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:: Open (2 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:: Fall 2021

Course Catalog Description:: Linguistic types/processes that appear across languages. Grammatical relations, word order, transitivity, subordination, information structure, grammaticalization. How these are present in syntax of Spanish. prereq: Grad student or instr consent
Class Notes:: Classes will meet via zoom at the scheduled times and in addition students will work in Canvas
Class Description:: The structure of modern Spanish: Syntax. The course discusses linguistic notions present in the syntax of Spanish, such as: discrete and prototypic categorization, grammaticalization, grammatical relations, flow of information, transitivity. The discussion is centered in the possible explanatory role of these notions vis-a-vis syntactic phenomena in Spanish, such as: word order, hypotaxis, parataxis, clitics, discourse particles. The content is theoretical and students are expected to come to class with an adequate knowledge of Spanish grammar. The target audience are graduate students. Required readings: Taylor. _Linguistic Categorization_; and excerpts from various authors.
Grading:: 30% Midterm Exam
30% Final Exam
40% Problem Solving
Exam Format:: essay
Class Format:: 60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Workload:: 30 Pages Reading Per Week
2 Exam(s)
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33892/1219
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 21 May 2007

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