ELT530 MODERN THEORY OF GRAMMAR
| Course Code: | 8200530 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | English Language Teaching |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. MARTINA GRACANIN YÜKSEK |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The goal of the course is familiarizing students with the contemporary research in the field of syntactic analysis focusing on the current state of the Minimalist program (Chomsky 1993, 1995) and its view of the syntactic derivation.
Course Content
This course will examine the theory of generative grammar in its minimalist version. The empirical adequacy of generative grammar as a system of mental representations is one of the main topics of investigation in the course.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon the completion of the course, students will be able to apply the minimalist syntactic theory to the analysis of sentences from various languages. They will also be able to understand sources of ungrammaticality as explained by the current syntactic theory.