Descripción y contextualización de la asignatura

This advanced course is offered in the second term of the Master’s programme. It builds on the skills developed in the Fundamentals course offered in the first term. The course places a particular emphasis on the conceptual and empirical developments that have led to current Minimalist theorizing, with special reference to other areas of Cognitive Science.

Resultados del aprendizaje de la asignatura

- To summarise the evidence and analyses of proposals in natural language syntax and morphology discussed in the course.

- To apply those analyses to novel data.

- To critically compare and evaluate those proposals.

Convocatoria ordinaria: orientaciones y renuncia

The evaluation will be based on 4 exercise sets assigned throughout the course. Each set is worth 25% of the final grade. Students will have opportunities to discuss the exercises in class and to resubmit the exercises after receiving feedback.



As a continuous evaluation course, students who have completed 25% of the exercises cannot withdraw from the first call.

Convocatoria extraordinaria: orientaciones y renuncia

Students who received a grade of “Fail” or “Declined to Sit” in the first call will be able to resubmit the exercise sets to improve their grade.

Temario

Topics: syntax as cognitive science, the architecture of models of grammar, the positions of subjects and external arguments, head movement, phrasal movement, argument alternations, agreement, control, empty categories, syntactic variation, among others.

Bibliografía

Materiales de uso obligatorio

Readings will be assigned on a weekly basis as the course progresses.

Bibliografía básica

Hornstein, N., Nunes, J., & Grohmann, K. K. (2005). Understanding Minimalism. Cambridge University Press.



Koeneman, O., & Zeijlstra, H. (2017). Introducing syntax. Cambridge University Press.



Radford, A. (2016). Analysing English sentences (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Bibliografía de profundización

Carnie, A. (2010). Constituent structure (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.







Isac, D., & Reiss, C. (2013). I-language – An introduction to linguistics as cognitive science (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.

Revistas

The Annual Review of Linguistics



Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo" (Asju)



Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics



Language and Linguistics Compass



Lapurdum



Linguistic Inquiry



The Linguistic Review



Natural Language and Linguistic Theory



Syntax

Enlaces

HiTT Linguistics: https://hittlinguistics.wixsite.com/hitt/semlin



LingBuzz: https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz



The Linguist List: http://www.linguistlist.org/