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B016722 - THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS (B)
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Academic Year 2017-18
Course year
Second year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-LIN/01 - HISTORICAL AND GENERAL LINGUISTICS
Credits
12
Teaching Hours
72
Teaching Term
18/09/2017 ⇒ 20/12/2017
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
italiano
Course Content
This course consists of two halves. The first half of the term provides an advanced introduction to the formal syntactic analysis of natural languages. In the second half of the term, we will approach a specific issue in syntax or morphosyntax, from a cross-linguistic and/or cross-disciplinary (e.g. psycholinguistic) point of view. The choice of the topic will depend on the current debate on linguistics and on its didactic usefulness.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
For the first half of the course:
M. Frascarelli et al. Elementi di sintassi. Caissa italia.
R. Berwick & N. Chomsky. Why only us. The MIT Press
B. Baldi & L. Savoia. Lingua e Comunicazione. Pacini
l. Haegeman. Thinking syntactically. Blackwell
For the second hal of the course, the instructor will designate selected scientific articles or chapters of books
M. Frascarelli et al. Elementi di sintassi. Caissa italia.
R. Berwick & N. Chomsky. Why only us. The MIT Press
B. Baldi & L. Savoia. Lingua e Comunicazione. Pacini
l. Haegeman. Thinking syntactically. Blackwell
For the second hal of the course, the instructor will designate selected scientific articles or chapters of books
Learning Objectives
The course ha a twofold aim, in keeping with its contents: 1. basic knowledge of the formal syntax of natural languages, ability to apply this knowledge to the analysis of linguistic data. 2. ability to read, compare and evaluate texts and proposals on a research topic in syntax or morphology, ability to elaborate the relevant data in an autonomous fashion.
Prerequisites
none
Teaching Methods
lectures
Further information
none
Type of Assessment
final exam
Course program
The first part of the course consists of an advanced introduction to syntax. Topics covered include: categories and constituents; the rule Merge; the Verb Phrase; the sentence (IP); the CP; the rule Move: head- A- and A'-movement; passives and unaccusatives; interrogatives, relatives and other wh-sentences.
The second part of the course will cover a single topic in syntax or morphosyntax, tipically in a crosslinguistic perspective and/or in a cross-disciplinary perspective (notably a psycholinguistic one). Topics discussed in recent years include: the inflection of the Noun, case, number, Person, Person splits.
The second part of the course will cover a single topic in syntax or morphosyntax, tipically in a crosslinguistic perspective and/or in a cross-disciplinary perspective (notably a psycholinguistic one). Topics discussed in recent years include: the inflection of the Noun, case, number, Person, Person splits.