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    This document provides an introduction and syllabus for a course on generative grammar taught in Fall 2016. The instructor is Imola-Ágnes Farkas and office hours are on Tuesdays from 11am-12pm in room M16. The course will introduce students to the principles of generative grammar and Universal Grammar, including how phrases and sentences are constructed according to these principles. Students will analyze syntactic structures in English and other languages. Requirements include a final written exam. The schedule outlines 14 weekly topics that will be covered over the semester.

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    This document provides an introduction and syllabus for a course on generative grammar taught in Fall 2016. The instructor is Imola-Ágnes Farkas and office hours are on Tuesdays from 11am-12pm in room M16. The course will introduce students to the principles of generative grammar and Universal Grammar, including how phrases and sentences are constructed according to these principles. Students will analyze syntactic structures in English and other languages. Requirements include a final written exam. The schedule outlines 14 weekly topics that will be covered over the semester.

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    This document provides an introduction and syllabus for a course on generative grammar taught in Fall 2016. The instructor is Imola-Ágnes Farkas and office hours are on Tuesdays from 11am-12pm in room M16. The course will introduce students to the principles of generative grammar and Universal Grammar, including how phrases and sentences are constructed according to these principles. Students will analyze syntactic structures in English and other languages. Requirements include a final written exam. The schedule outlines 14 weekly topics that will be covered over the semester.

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    Introduction to Generative Grammar

    Fall 2016
    Instructor: Imola-Ágnes FARKAS
    Emails: [email protected], [email protected]
    Office hours: Tuesday 11 a.m.-12 p.m., M16

    Syllabus
    Description: We can only understand the subtleties of syntactic structures if we understand the architectonic principles
    and blueprints of natural language, the rules that govern the ways in which words combine to build phrases, and phrases
    are combined into larger phrases or sentences. It is also necessary to understand that syntax is multi-layered, that
    phrases, after being built, can be moved or deleted in order to satisfy the correlation with the Semantic or Phonetic
    modules of the language faculty. Movements and deletions take place under certain restrictions, and speakers, without
    being specifically taught these conditions, have an unconscious knowledge of them. All natural languages share the same
    fundamental structural properties of one universal language faculty, property of the human brain. But these principles
    are broad enough to allow considerable differences among specific languages, and this enables both language variation
    and foreign language acquisition.

    Objectives:
    To present and discuss evidence that supports the idea that language is a human biological endowment
    To explain how phrases and sentences are constructed
    To explain the notions language faculty and Universal Grammar
    To give a generative description of the English syntax
    To explain the differences in sentence structure among languages from around the world in terms of universal
    principles and parameters

    Bibliography:
    Cook, Vivian & Mark Newson. 1996. Chomsky’s Universal Grammar. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Second edition.
    Farkas, Imola-Ágnes. 2016. A Practical Generative Grammar with Exercises. Cluj: Casa Cărții de Știință.
    Guasti, Maria Teresa. 2002. Language Acquisition. The Growth of Grammar. MIT.
    Haegeman, Liliane. 1994. Introduction to Government and Binding Theory, Basil Blackwell.
    Hornstein, Norbert, Jairon Nunes & Kleanthes K. Grohmann. 2005. Understanding Minimalism. Cambridge: CUP.
    Pinker, Steven. 1995. The Language Instinct. Penguin.
    Radford, Andrew. 2004. Minimalist Syntax. Exploring the Structure of English. Cambridge: CUP.
    Todea, Adriana. 2015. PRO Control and Its Syntactic Architecture in English and Romanian. Cluj: Casa Cărții de Știință.

    Requirements & assessment: One final written exam, testing both theoretical knowledge and practical application of
    theoretical knowledge). The printed outlines of the courses will be made available for you prior to our meetings. You are
    required to bring the appropriate outline at every course. You find in the outlines the content of the slides I project, which
    contain the main topics and also structures and diagrams which may be difficult and time consuming for you to copy
    during the lecture. They are made available to you to save time and to make note-taking easier, but not unnecessary!
    The outlines as such (without your notes covering the detailed explanations that I give during the course) cannot
    constitute a sufficient source of information when preparing for the exam. If you miss a class, it is strongly recommended
    that the outline be used as a guide to the bibliography covering the topics discussed.

    Schedule
    DATE TOPICS
    WEEK 1: 7/10 Course 1: Language as an Instinct
    WEEK 2: 14/10 Course 2: Unaccusativity and unergativity, multistratal syntax, EPP
    WEEK 3: 21/10 Course 3: Argument structure and theta roles, syntactic valence, mappings between syntax and
    semantics
    WEEK 4: 28/10 Seminar 1: Argument structure and theta roles (exercises)
    WEEK 5: 4/11 Course 4: Nativism and child language acquisition, Plato’s problem, I-language versus E-
    language
    WEEK 6: 11/11 ------
    WEEK 7: 18/11 Course 5: The structure of phrases: binary operations, binary trees, structural relations
    WEEK 8: 25/11 Seminar 2: X-bar theory (exercises)
    WEEK 9: 2/12?? Course 6: The Case Filter, feature checking, Merge and Move
    WEEK 10: 9/12 Seminar 3: Syntactic types and VP shells
    WEEK 11: 16/12 Course 7: Movement in the left periphery: the Complementizer Phrase
    WEEK 12: 23/12?? Seminar 4: Ditransitives, double transitives, subclauses, interrogatives
    WEEK 13: 13/01 Seminar 5: Control and raising structures
    WEEK 14: 20/01 Seminar 6: Floating quantifiers

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