| Course ID: | LING 8160. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Advanced Generative Syntax |
Course
Description: | Formal analysis of syntactic phenomena, such as question formation, relative clauses, and topicalization (known as A'-dependencies), as well as the distribution of reflexive and non-reflexive pronouns with respect to their antecedents (known as binding or anaphoric relations). Examples are drawn primarily from English. |
| Oasis Title: | Advanced Generative Syntax |
| Prerequisite: | LING 8150 |
Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | : The goal of this course is to cover a range of issues that have
taken central stage in the Minimalist Program: the basic
operations that create phrase structure (via Merge and Move),
licensing of grammatical categories (movement and feature
checking), economy conditions and restrictions on movement,
the nature of phrase structure, the inventory of functional
categories, inflectional morphology and the nature of parametric
variation. |
| Topical Outline: | The choice and sequence of topics will vary from instructor to
instructor and semester to semester. The choice of topics will
depend on the textbook used and the selected readings. Syntactic
theory being in constant evolution, the choice of supplementary
readings is not likely to be the same from one semester to the
next.
A possible series of topics and assignments might resemble this:
The typology of syntactic positions, clause structure,
expletives and verb movement, morphology and word order in
Germanic and Romance languages and the (non-)universality of
functional categories. |
| Honor Code Reference: | Students in this course are expected to be familiar with and
adhere to the University of Georgia policy on academic honesty,
according to which all violations ofacademic honesty will be
handled. Students may participate in graded group projects
at the instructor's discretion. |