16.7 2nd and 3rd years Dominique Estival. 12.5 points of Linguistics at first-year level or Departmental approval. Second semester Two lectures and a tutorial a week. By the end of the subject, students should:

• have acquired skills of syntactic argumentation and critical evaluation of syntactic arguments;
• understand what is meant by the 'generative' approach to syntax and be familiar with the central issues in current generative syntax;
• be able to identify and describe the important syntactic constructions in English, and be familiar with the generative analyses of these constructions.

An introduction to the principles and techniques of a formal syntactic theory/theories as applied to the analysis of English; to syntactic argumentation; and to current issues in syntactic theory. Regular assignment problems, a mid-semester examination and a take-home examination, totalling 5,000 words. Borsley Syntactic Theory: A Unified Approach. 16.7 2nd and 3rd years Dominique Estival. 12.5 points of Linguistics at first-year level or Departmental approval. Second semester Two lectures and a tutorial a week. By the end of the subject, students should:

• have acquired skills of syntactic argumentation and critical evaluation of syntactic arguments;
• understand what is meant by the 'generative' approach to syntax and be familiar with the central issues in current generative syntax;
• be able to identify and describe the important syntactic constructions in English, and be familiar with the generative analyses of these constructions.

An introduction to the principles and techniques of a formal syntactic theory/theories as applied to the analysis of English; to syntactic argumentation; and to current issues in syntactic theory. Regular assignment problems, a mid-semester examination and a take-home examination, totalling 5,000 words. Borsley Syntactic Theory: A Unified Approach.