Spanish Linguistics: Syntaxis and Semantics

6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 4020144FNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

Spanish

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Kim Collewaert
An Vande Casteele (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

13 contact hours Lecture
13 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
128 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

Course Content: Predicate, subject and arguments, syntactic functions and semantic roles, transitivity, intransitivity, lexical aspect, passive voice, impersonality.

Research task: Syntactic and semantic analysis of a verb.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : El Corpus del Español del Siglo XXI (CORPES XXI)
Digital course material (Required) : documenten ter beschikking in de lessen of via het leerplatform + eigen notities

Additional info

As the subject it taught and assessed in Spanish, advanced knowledge of that language is a requirement.

Study material will be provided over the course of the semester in the lessons or by the means of the learning platform. Additionally, students are required to take notes during the course.

El Corpus del Español del Siglo XXI (CORPES XXI)

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

To acquire a good linguistic knowledge of Spanish.

Being able to identify and explain several classifications of verbs.

To be able to comment on the relationship between syntax and semantics.

To be able to complete a lexicographical study of a verb based on dictionaries.

To present a corpus-based analysis of syntactic structures

To write an academic paper on the syntax and semantics of a verb and to give a presentation about it.

To optimize critical and analytical skills

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Written Exam determines 30% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 20% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

examen mondeling with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Note: Oral exam with written preparation

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

schriftelijk Paper with a relative weight of 30 which comprises 30% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Presentatie paper with a relative weight of 20 which comprises 20% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Students can only pass the course as a whole, if they achieved a minimal score of 8/20 for each of the separate evaluation criteria. If a student scored less than 8/20 for one or more of the separate evaluation criteria, he or she cannot receive a final score higher than 9/20. If a student does not participate in all of the separate evaluation criteria of the course, he or she will be marked absent for the course as a whole.

Partial grades can be transferred to a later exam session within the same academic year, at the written request of the student.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context