Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Linguistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: APPROACHES TO SYNTAX ***** Examination of syntactic analysis from a variety of perspectives. Syntax is at the core of generative approaches to linguistics, including not only Chomskyan grammar, but also other generative theories such as HPSG, LFG, and Construction grammar. In addition there are a variety of nongenerative, functional approaches to syntactic description, including Cognitive Grammar. In this course, we examine the fundamental ideas underlying syntactic analysis and survey different theoretical approaches both generative and functional, to the subject. *****