Course
Teachers
The course will be taught by Prof. Dr Kees Hengeveld, University of Amsterdam, and Prof. Dr J. Lachlan Mackenzie, VU University Amsterdam.
Course Material
Participants are expected to read the following book in advance: Keizer, Evelien (2015). A Functional Discourse Grammar for English: a textbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Programme
During the course the various levels of analysis used in FDG are explained and illustrated on the basis of the textbook on FDG by Keizer mentioned above. Students are assumed to have read the book before the course. After a review of the theory as a whole and discussion of some selected exercises from the textbook, a number of examples (from English as well as other languages) will be analyzed during the last afternoon so as to develop some analytical skills using the tools offered by FDG. The detailed programme is:
| Sunday 28-08-2016 | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Welcome reception |
| Monday 29-08-2016 | |
| 09:00 - 9:30 | Registration and welcome |
| 9:30 - 11:00 | Introduction (Keizer 2015, Chs.1&2) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee-tea break |
| 11:15 - 12:45 | The Interpersonal Level (Keizer 2015, Ch.3) |
| 12:45 - 14:15 | Lunch break |
| 14:15 - 15:45 |
The
Interpersonal Level (Keizer 2015, Ch.3) The Representational Level (Keizer 2015, Ch.4) |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Coffee-tea break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | The Representational Level (Keizer 2015, Ch.4) |
| Tuesday 30-08-2016 | |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | The Morphosyntactic Level (Keizer 2015, Ch.5) |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee-tea break |
| 10:45 - 12:15 |
The Morphosyntactic Level
(Keizer 2015, Ch.5) The Phonological Level (Keizer 2015, Ch.6) |
| 12:15 - 13:45 | Lunch break |
| 13:45 - 15:15 |
The
Phonological Level (Keizer 2015, Ch.6) Analysis of example sentences (Keizer 2015, Ch. 7 + input from students) |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Coffee-tea break |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Analysis of example sentences (Keizer 2015, Ch. 7 + input from students) |