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