Syntactic Theory II

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2016

This course builds on students' knowledge of syntactic theory (as covered in Ling 112 or equivalent) and is designed to enable students to follow current research and engage them in syntactic analysis and theoretical argumentation. Topics vary from year to year; may include head movement, case and agreement, anaphora, functional categories, ellipsis, argument structure, decomposition, constraints on movement and derivations, and issues concerning form-meaning mappings.