Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Spring Quarter 2013
• Summer Quarter 2013
• Autumn Quarter 2013

Frederick J Newmeyer
LING 562
Seattle Campus

Advanced Syntax

Advanced study in modern syntactic theory. Topics change each quarter. Typical topics are history of transformational grammar, anaphora, logical form. Prerequisite: LING 461, LING 462.

Class description

Aut 2001

This class will examine and try to understand the cross-linguistic distribution of syntactic elements, including word order generalizations and correlations; hierarchies of thematic and grammatial relations, animacy, and definiteness; and the properties of particles marking topic, focus, and so on.

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General method of instruction

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Class assignments and grading

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