Admission requirements
Linguistics 2 must have been successfully completed.
Description
This course is a follow-up on Linguistics 2: The Syntax of English. We will look more closely at how syntax interacts with semantics (i.e. meaning), we will introduce a more refined representation of phrase structure (X-bar syntax), we will discuss further examples of constituent movement, and we will further acquaint ourselves with the essentials of syntactic argumentation.
Course objectives
Students have the ability to analyse and represent the syntactic structure of English.
Students have the ability to formulate syntactic arguments.
Students know some important descriptive tools and theoretical concepts of generative syntax.
Mode of instruction
Lecture (1 hour p/w)
Seminar (1 hour p/w)
Course Load
The course load is 140 hours.
Hours spent on attending lectures and seminars: 26
Time for preparing the homework (reading + exercises): 34
Time to prepare for the written assignment, quiz and exam: 80
Assessment method
Mid-term written assignment: 15%
In-term quiz: 15%
End-of-term exam (70%).
Blackboard
Reading list
Geoffrey Poole. 2011. Syntactic Theory. 2nd edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.