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Word
classes (classification, semantics, morphosyntactic characteristics,
fuzzy boundaries; words vs. phrases)
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Verbal
categories (agreement categories; tense, aspect, mood, voice, valency)
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Tense
(semantic and morphosyntactic contrasts; tense as a deictic category;
back-shift)
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Aspect
(the meanings of progressive; the meanings of perfect; aspect vs. tense)
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Mood
and modality (semantics of modality, root vs. epistemic; modal verbs
and other means of expressing modality)
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Voice
(semantic and morphosyntactic contrasts; the main uses of the passive;
passivisability)
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Valency
(transitive vs. intransitive; semantics of transitivity; semantic roles)
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Structure
of kernel clauses (complements vs. adjuncts, objects vs. predicative
complements, major patterns of complementation, phrasal verbs vs.
prepositional verbs)
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Nominal
categories (number, gender, case, definiteness)
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Count
vs. mass interpretation; definite vs. specific vs. generic
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Proper
vs. common (proper nouns vs. proper names)
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Structure
of noun phrases (head; determiners vs. modifiers, complements vs.
modifiers, modifiers vs. peripheral dependents; structure vs. function)
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Pronouns
(classification and functions: deictic and anaphoric)
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Nominalisation,
adjectivalisation and adverbialisation
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Adjectives
and adjective phrases (semantics, morphosyntactic characteristics;
structure and function of AdjPs)
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Adverbs
and adverb phrases (semantics, morphosyntactic characteristics;
structure and function of AdvPs)
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Prepositions
and prepositional phrases (classification; structure and function of
PPs)
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Clause
type and function
