Through readings, lecture material, tutorial practice and discussion, and hands-on assignments, students are introduced to the relationship between syntactic (sentence and phrase) structure and the expression of meaning, that is, how speakers use different structures when attempting to express different meanings. The focus is on an analysis of English structure using M. A. K. Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar, but it is hoped the students will be able to apply what they have learned about constituency, structural relations and semantic relations when thinking about other languages and other theories of structure.

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