175-015 Syntax

Note

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

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Assoc Prof Lesley Stirling

Prerequisites

Completion of 175-105 Introduction to Language or 175-106 The Linguistics of English or departmental approval.

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week. There will be no tutorial in the first week of semester

Subject Description

This subject is an 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. Students should become familiar with topics such as constituent structure; syntactic categories; grammatical functions (interface with morphology); thematic relations (interface with semantics); word order; multi-clausal constructions; and complement clauses, relative clauses and clause linking; and unbounded dependencies.

Assessment

Practical assignment problems totalling 2000 words, and a take-home examination of 2000 words.

Prescribed Texts

A subject reader and manual will be available.



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