LING5520 - Syntax II

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
Syntax II
Term
2024A
Subject area
LING
Section number only
001
Section ID
LING5520001
Course number integer
5520
Meeting times
MW 12:00 PM-1:29 PM
Meeting location
WLNT 326C
Level
graduate
Instructors
Filipe Hisao De Salles Kobayashi
Description
The second half of a year-long introduction to the formal study of natural language syntax. Topics to be covered include grammatical architecture; derivational versus representational statement of syntactic principles; movement and locality; the interface of syntax and semantics; argument structure; and other topics. The emphasis is on reading primary literature and discussing theoretical approaches, along with detailed case-studies of specific syntactic phenomena in different languages.
Course number only
5520
Use local description
No