1. Sentence types and discourse functions.

2. Verb valency, clause patterns. Identifying clause elements and their realization forms (phrases). Constitutive / non-constitutive clause elements. Obligatory / Optional clause elements (including modifiers and apposition). Multiple clause elements.

3. Semantic roles of clause elements (the subject, object, complements).

4. The adverbial – integration in the sentence structure, realization forms, semantic roles.

5. Negation. Complex analysis of the sentence.

6. Complex and compound sentence. Typology of dependent clauses. Nominal content clauses.

7. Relative clauses. Adverbial clauses.

8. Complex condensation. The infinitive, gerund, participle.

9. Complex analysis of the multiple sentence.

10. Word order – grammatical, semantic, FSP (and other) principles.

11. Functional sentence perspective.