Topics (not necessarily presented in this order):

1. Grammar and Context (grammaticality, prescriptive and descriptive approach, unit of description in written and spoken language; types of context)

2. Variation (situation/linguistic features, dimensions of variation, multidimensional approach); Grammar in the narrative: clause and phrase complexity

3. Grammar in informal dialogue: The Friends sitcom and natural conversation

4. Grammar in "Cinderella Texts" - recipes, menus, TV programmes, etc.

5. Grammar and FSP - linearity: syntactic constructions signalling FSP (existential construction, passive, cleft and pseudo-cleft, clauses with a locative subject etc.)

6. Grammar and FSP - context and semantic factor: definiteness and FSP, focalizers (articles and other devices signalling context dependence, focusing subjuncts)

7. Ditransitive complementation: syntactic and semantic analysis

8. Negation: clausal / local negation, double negation, words negative in meaning but positive in form etc.

9. Grammar in newspaper reports

10. Morpho-syntactic analysis of selected texts

11. Students’ presentations