175-211 Syntax

Note

Available as 175-311 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

12.5 points of Linguistics at first-year level or Departmental approval.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

This subject provides an introduction to the basic concepts and methods of syntactic analysis and description. The emphasis is on practical analysis and description of a wide range of phenomena from a variety of languages. Topics covered include: constitutent structure; syntactic categories; grammatical functions (interface with morphology); thematic relations (interface with semantics); word order; multi-clausal constructions: complement clauses, relative clauses, clause linking; unbounded dependencies.

Assessment

Assignments totalling 5000 words in written work. An examination may be substituted for part of this work.

Prescribed Texts

Brown and Miller. 1991 Syntax: a linguistic introduction to sentence structure. 2nd edition. London: Routledge.