Morphology & Syntactics

Course Description

This course contain of  inflectional  and  derivational  morphological processes  , affixation in word formation is discussed in relation to grammatical categories and the structure of English phrases and sentences. 

Course Aims

By the end of the course, students must be able to:

1. Identify types of words

2. Identify the different types of morphemes

3. Analyze words morphologically

4. Identify different types of noun and verb phrases

5. Categorize words according to their grammatical functions and positional classes.

6. Identify the different English  sentence patterns

7. Write sentences illustrating specific sentence patterns.

Learning Outcomes

1. Develop students’ analytical thinking.
2. Examine different approaches to grammar.