ELT619 SYNTAX AND ITS INTERFACES
| Course Code: | 8200619 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (0.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | English Language Teaching |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, students will:
- Become familiarized with the notion of a grammatical interface,
- Be able to identify phenomena that pertain to the interface between syntax and PF or LF,
- Become familiarized with various analyses proposed to explain such phenomena,
- Be able to conduct independent research into such phenomena.
Course Content
Definition of grammatical interface, PF/LF interface, linearization, linearization algorithms, multiple dominance, Right-Node Raising, Across-the-board movement, syncretism (morphological and syntactic), Agreement, scope, Quantifier raising, reconstruction, scope economy, pronominal anaphora, co-reference, E-type pronouns.
Course Learning Outcomes
The course aims at developing an understanding of the mechanisms that constraing human lingusitic system, in particular those that are related to externalization of the results of the syntactic computation.