Enrollment year
2015/2016
Academic discipline
L-LIN/01 (GLOTTOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS AND MODERN LANGUAGES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (21/09/2015 - 23/12/2015)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Basic principle and notions of syntactic and semantic analysis.
Learning outcomes
In this course we learn how to conduct semantic analysis focusing on the interplay between lexical/semantic representations and syntactic forms. The course privileges a corpus-based approach to linguistic investigation.
Course contents
Syntactic theories
The course aims to provide students with an overview of major contemporary syntactic theories and to give them insight into the development of syntactic thought. Both functional and formal approaches to syntax are discussed, focusing on the analysis of specific phenomena such as the passive and argument realization. At the end of the course the students are asked to conduct a syntactic analysis using empirical data from linguistic resources (annotated corpora, repositories, WALS etc.).
Introduzione
1. Relational Grammar (RelG?)
2. Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG)
3. Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)
4. The 'Chomskian Program'
5. Role and Reference Grammar (RRG)
6. Functional Grammar (FG)
7. Construction Grammar (CxG?)
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Lab
Slide
Meetings with teaching assistant
Reccomended or required readings
Graffi, G. (2001) "Different views of syntax". In 200 years of Syntax. A critical survey. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
van Valin, R.J. (2001) "Theories of Syntax". In Introduction to Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
A full list of references to be discussed in the seminars will be provided in class.
Assessment methods
Final oral exam covering material from the entire course.
Final assignment reporting the results of an in-depth corpus-based analysis of a syntactic phenomenon.
Further information
Final oral exam covering material from the entire course.
Final assignment reporting the results of an in-depth corpus-based analysis of a syntactic phenomenon.
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