Week - 1 |
Introduction to the class. Universal Grammar, innateness of language hypothesis. Introduction to Principles and Parameters approach to language. |
Week - 2 |
Constituency. Parts of syntactic structures: nodes and branches. |
Week - 3 |
Tests for constituency: coordination, substitution, movement. |
Week - 4 |
Heads and complements |
Week - 5 |
Specifiers/modifiers |
Week - 6 |
X-bar theory |
Week - 7 |
Midterm |
Week - 8 |
Midterm |
Week - 9 |
Arguments for the DP |
Week - 10 |
Subcategorization |
Week - 11 |
C-command |
Week - 12 |
Principle A of the Binding Theory |
Week - 13 |
Principles B and C of the Binding Theory |
Week - 14 |
Theta Theory |