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2015 / 2016Graduate Schools of Arts & SciencesCourses

Syntax II

CAS LX 523

Credits:
4
Offered:
either sem.
Undergraduate Prerequisites:
CAS LX 522; or equivalent; or consent of instructor.

Part two of a two-semester sequence. Investigation of syntactic commonalities and differences across languages. Scrutiny of evidence and argumentation from past and current analyses, focusing on construction of strong arguments. Topics include movement, passives, question formation, syntactic micro-structure, and interaction with semantics, pragmatics, and phonology.

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