TOPICS IN THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS II

- Familiarization with the theoretical premises concerning the key questions of the course-questions about the directionality of adnominal adjectives in the noun phrase and the modes of interpretation of the combination AN/NA. -Preparing and presenting of the bibliography proposed fot he course and writing an essay of about 15-20 pages long, where the critical points discussed in the class and studied in the bibliography will be assessed. -For the students to enhance their critical and combinatorial ability and get familiarized with discovering the relavant references for each particular topic concerning adjective placement inside the noun phrase. - For the students to learn how to collect their data (from oral and/or written speech), in which they will discover the phenomena they want to analyse

The main topic of the course concerns the directionality of adnominal adjectives relative to the modified noun and also relative to one another if there are more than one adjective per noun phrase. This topic will be explored not only with emphasis on Greek but also with respect to other languages or language families (English, Romance). Issues concernng the syntax of adnominal adjectives are closely related to the ways adjective-noun combinations are interpreted, so in the class issues such as subcategories of adjectives (property denoting, intensional/extensional, absolute/non-absolute, subjective/objective), as well as semantic properties (restrictivity, intersectiveness, etc.) will also be brought to the forth.

Αdnominal adjective, attributive adjective, predicative adjective, position, directionality, interpretation of NA combinations, polydefiniteness

21-01-2017