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LING 115 Introduction to the Theory of Syntax 6 credits
This course is organized to enable the student to actively participate in the construction of a rather elaborate theory of the nature of human cognitive capacity to acquire and use natural languages. In particular, we concentrate on one aspect of that capacity: the unconscious acquisition of a grammar that enables a speaker of a language to produce and recognize sentences that have not been previously encountered. In the first part of the course, we concentrate on gathering notation and terminology intended to allow an explicit and manageable description. In the second part, we depend on written and oral student contributions in a cooperative enterprise of theory construction.
- Fall 2024, Spring 2025
- FSR, Formal or Statistical Reasoning
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LING 115.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Catherine Fortin đ« đ€
- Size:20
- M, WLeighton 236 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 236 1:10pm-2:10pm
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LING 115.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Catherine Fortin đ« đ€
- Size:20
- M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
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LING 216 Generative Approaches to Syntax 6 credits
This course has two primary goals: to provide participants with a forum to continue to develop their analytical skills (i.e., to ‘do syntax’), and to acquaint them with generative syntactic theory, especially the Principles and Parameters approach. Participants will sharpen their technological acumen, through weekly problem solving, and engage in independent thinking and analysis, by means of formally proposing novel syntactic analyses for linguistic phenomena. By the conclusion of the course, participants will be prepared to read and critically evaluate primary literature couched within this theoretical framework.
- Winter 2025
- FSR, Formal or Statistical Reasoning
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Student has completed and of the following course(s): LING 115 with grade of C- or better.
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LING 216.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Catherine Fortin đ« đ€
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 10:10am-11:55am
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LING 315 Topics in Syntax 6 credits
What moves where, how, and for what purpose? In this course, participants explore accounts of various types of syntactic movement within the Minimalist Program. After an introduction to Minimalism, we read, discuss, and evaluate primary literature. This course offers an overview of the progression of generative syntactic theory from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, with a focus on objectively comparing competing analyses. By the end of the course, participants will have familiarity with scholarly literature on theoretical syntax; with evaluating and critiquing existing theoretical analyses; and with proposing and defending a novel analysis.
- Fall 2024
- FSR, Formal or Statistical Reasoning
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Student has completed the following course(s): LING 216 with grade of C- or better.
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LING 315.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Catherine Fortin đ« đ€
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 305 9:50am-11:00am
- FLibrary 305 9:40am-10:40am