Syntax

Catalog description

In this course, students explore the knowledge of sentence structure in an attempt to build a basic theoretical model of grammar. Students look at what we know when we know how to form phrases, sentences, and various grammatical constructions. In addition, students take an in-depth look at relationships between different elements within sentences and how best to formally account for these things. The course approaches all of this from a Chomskian/Generativist perspective in particular, although other frameworks will be discussed.