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What is Syntax? | 1) What we study in syntax 2) Nature of syntactic knowledge | ![]() |
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Universal Grammar | 1) Universal Grammar (UG) 2) Evidence of the existence of UG | ![]() |
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Sentence: Functional Definition | 1) Sentence: Functional level 2) Subject - Predicate | ![]() |
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Sentence: Definition by Form | 1) Sentence: Definition by Form 2) Part of Speech | ![]() |
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Phrases and Constituency | 1) Phrases 2) Constituency tests 3) Phrase Structure Rules | ![]() |
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Phrase Structure Rules (1) | 1) Phrase Structure Rules | ![]() |
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Phrase Structure Rules (2) | 1) Phrase Structure Rules | ![]() |
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Clausal Hierarchy, Finiteness | Clausal Hierarchy | ![]() |
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Form vs. Function | 1) Structural ambiguity 2) Form-function mismatches | ![]() |
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Notations for Tree Structure | 1) Notations for Tree Structure 2) C-command 3) Evidence for c-command | ![]() |
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Binding Theory | 1) Binding Theory: Another piece of evidence for c-command | ![]() |
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Binding Theory & Theta Theory (1) | 1) Binding Theory (Part II) 2) Thematic roles | ![]() |
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Theta Theory (2) | 1) Theta-grids 2) Theta Criterion 3) Some exercises on Theta Theory | ![]() |
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X’ - Theory (1) | 1) Some problems for PSRs 2) Introduction to X’-theory | ![]() |
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X’ - Theory (2) | 1) X’-theory: Complement vs. Adjuncts | ![]() |
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X’ - Theory (3) | 1) X’-Theory: VP 2) X’-Theory: Structural ambiguity | ![]() |
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X’ - Theory (4) | 1) X’-Theory: TP & CP 2) X’-Theory: NegP | ![]() |
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DP-hypothesis | 1) X’-Theory: DP-hypothesis | ![]() |
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Exercises: Drawing X’-tree | 1) Exercises: Drawing X’-tree | ![]() |
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Head Movement (1) | 1) Definition of Movement 2) Two Levels of Representations 3) Head Movement | ![]() |
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Head Movement (2) | 1)Cross-linguistic Variations on Head Movement 2) Negation in Head Movement 3) Do-support as Last Resort | ![]() |
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Head Movement (3) | 1) Tense, Aspect, and Voice 2) Distributions of Aspectual Auxiliaries | ![]() |
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Head Movement (4) | 1) T-to-C Movement in Yes-No Questions | ![]() |
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DP Movement (1) | 1) DP-Movement 2) Projection Principle | ![]() |
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DP Movement (2) | 1) The EPP 2) Passivization | ![]() |
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DP Movement (3) | 1) Case Theory 2) Burzio’s Generalization | ![]() |
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DP Movement (4) | 1) Unaccusative vs. Unergative 2) Subject to Object Raising 3) Exercises | ![]() |
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Wh-Movement (1) | 1) Wh-movement | ![]() |
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Wh-Movement (2) | 1) DP-movement vs. Wh-movement 2) Embedded questions 3) Relative clauses | ![]() |
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Wh-Movement (3) | 1) Islands 2) Subjacency | ![]() |
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Wh-Movement (4) | 1) Minimal Link Condition 2) Exercises on Movement | ![]() |
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Stylistic Movement | 1) Stylistic Movement | ![]() |
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Syntactic Argumentation | 1) Hypothesis-Falsification Approach 2) Occam’s Razor | ![]() |
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Control Theory (1) | 1) Control Theory 2) Null Argument PRO (PRO Theorem) | ![]() |
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Control Theory (2) | 1) Obligatory Control & Non-Obligatory Control 2) Exceptional Case Marking | ![]() |
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Control Theory (3) | 1) Exercises : Control Theory | ![]() |