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Description

This course covers some of the basic ideas in the subfield syntax, within the framework often referred to as “Generative Grammar”.

Course Curriculum

  • The Hierarchical Organization of Language Unlimited
  • More on Building Syntactic Trees; Plus Locality Considerations; Theta-Roles Unlimited
  • More on Theta-Roles; Case; Basics of Binding Theory Unlimited
  • Binding Theory; Syntactic Movement; Embedded vs. Matrix Questions; and Wh-movement Unlimited
  • Islands and Movement Unlimited
  • Verb Movement Unlimited
  • A-movement Unlimited
  • More on Movement Unlimited
  • The Uniformity of Theta Assignment Hypothesis (UTAH) Unlimited
  • Empirical Arguments for PRO Unlimited
  • Obligatory and Non-obligatory Control Unlimited
  • Pro versus PRO Unlimited
  • Covert Movement Unlimited
  • Tense and Aspect Unlimited
  • Polysynthesis Unlimited
  • Conditionals Unlimited
  • Free Relatives Unlimited

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