A presentation of the basic ideas of modern syntactic theory, illustrating how they apply to the description of various different types of languages. The theoretical ideas covered will include phrase structure, features and feature structures, grammatical transformations and binding relations. The empirical areas they will be applied to will include word order, case-marking and agreement, valence-change, long-distance dependencies and anaphora. The emphasis will be on identifying how different theoretical ideas fare in dealing with descriptive data.

3 assignments (60%) and research paper (40%).

2 hours of lectures and one hour of tutorial per week

Introduction to Syntax LING2003

LING2006 Generative Grammar