Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Apply analytic methods to analyse linguistic data;
2. Identify syntactic units such as heads, complements, adjuncts, and arguments;
3. Understand and formally describe syntactic structures and relations.
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course is an introduction to sentence structure. It looks into the largely unconscious rules that determine how speakers of a language combine words into larger units such as phrases and sentences, and how they structurally represent what they hear or read. Examples will be drawn mainly for English but we will also use data from other languages as well as developmental (first and second language acquisition data).
Additional bibliography for study
Main set book:
van Gelderen, E. (2017).Syntax. An Introduction to Minimalism. Benjamins Pub. (e-book)
Further reading:
Haegeman,L. (2006). Thinking syntactically : a guide to argumentation and analysis. Blackwell Pub.
Radford, A. 2009. Analysing English sentences: a minimalist approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.