Syntax (1)

Course Main Objective

to make students acquainted with origin of syntax, its limits, terminology and schools; to recognize parts of speech, classify declinable noun, indeclinable noun, apparent, supposed and local declension, original and secondary signs, the definite and indefinite articles and recognize the nominatives including the subject of a nominal sentence and the predicate.

Course Learning Outcomes

• 1. Knowledge and Comprehension
•    1.1 Explain history of Syntax origin and those grammatical rules related to parts of speech, structure, declension and nominal sentence. 
• 2. Skills 
  
•    2.1 Recognize the grammatical rules of studies chapters through analyzing different texts.
•    2.2 Apply communication and information technology as well as learning resources to the studied grammatical rules of different texts. 
• 3. Values 
•    3.1 Assume individual, collective and leading responsibility and respect personal relationships upon performing homework and assignments.
• 3.2 Perform grammatical homework abiding by integrity and academical ethics as well as values of responsible citizen.

Course Content

• An introduction to the course and its goals and requirements; origin and evolution of syntax and its schools, limits and terms.
• Components of speech
• The six nouns: conditions, parsing and giving examples.
• Reality of the dual and signs of declension with examples in all types of declension including the nominative/indicative case, the accusative/subjunctive case, the genitive case in all famous chapters and its patterns.
• Reality of the intact masculine plural and difference with the broken plural and most famous words attached to the intact masculine plural.
• Reality of the five verbs with several examples from verbs in particular those verbs conjugational changes.
• Apparent, supposed and local declension.
• The definite and indefinite nouns
• Types of proper nouns concerning word and denotation
• Reality of demonstrative nouns and their types according to the noun referred to with examples.
• The relative nouns and how to use in different inflection places
• The nominal subject and its predicate
• Distinction between the predicate and the nominative noun which replaced the predicate, and the predicate in its different forms (singular, phrase, quasi-proposition phrase).

Textbook (s) 

- Ibn Aqil: Explication of Al AlFiyah Ibn Malek. Dar Al-Torath, Dar Misr, Cairo, 20th ed., 2014.

Course ID: ARAB 201