  Scalar-tensor theories offer the prospect of explaining the cosmological
evolution of the Universe through an effective description of dark energy as a
quantity with a non-trivial evolution. In this work, we investigate this
feature of scalar-tensor theories in the teleparallel gravity context.
Teleparallel gravity is a novel description of geometric gravity as a
torsional-rather than curvature-based quantity which presents a new
foundational base for gravity. Our investigation is centered on the impact of a
nontrivial input from the kinetic term of the scalar field. We consider a
number of model settings in the context of the dynamical system to reveal their
evolutionary behavior. We determine the critical points of these systems and
discuss their dynamics.
