LING403-11W (C) Whole Year 2011

Syntactic Theory

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 February 2011
End Date: Sunday, 13 November 2011
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 4 March 2011
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 2 September 2011

Description

Current issues in generative syntax.

Comparative syntax is the study of syntactic differences between languages. Its aims are to identify core properties that all languages have in common, and to provide a theoretical account of the ways in which the syntax of one language or variety may differ from that of another.

This course offers first-hand experience of comparative syntactic research, and provides students with the practical skills and theoretical knowledge needed to pursue more advanced studies in the field. We will start by choosing a particular topic to work on as a class and reviewing some of the existing literature. Throughout the year, every student will collect and analyse relevant data from a language of their choice, and we will use our weekly meetings to compare these data and discuss their implications for different theoretical approaches to comparative syntax. While individual student projects will focus on data from one language, we will also try to develop an analysis that can account for the cross-linguistic similarities and differences in the data we have amassed as a class.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Heidi Quinn

Course links

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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,444.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All LING403 Occurrences

  • LING403-11W (C) Whole Year 2011