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 175-015 Syntax

Note

Formerly available as 175-211/311. Students who have completed 175-211/311 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Prof.Peter Austin

Prerequisites

Completion of 175-105 (175-004) Introduction to Language, or 175-106 (175-005) English: Its Structure and History, or departmental approval.

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial per week. There will be no tutorials in the first or the middle week

Subject Description

Introduction to basic concepts and methods of syntactic analysis and description. Emphasis is on practical analysis and description of a wide range of phenomena from a variety of languages. Topics: constituent 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

Three assignments of 500 words each, and a 1-hour examination, and a 1.5-hour examination.

Prescribed Texts
  • Brown & Miller, Syntax: a linguistic introduction to sentence structure. (2nd ed) Routledge 1991.
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