CJBB92 Comparative Syntax

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2004
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Karlík, CSc.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Timetable
Thu 18:20–19:55 10
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
In the course, I will focus on the following issues: What do universals tell us about language and its properties? What causes cross-linguistic variation? Is the number of natural languages bound or infinite? What exactly do languages differ in?
Syllabus
  • Universals and variation - word order - Case and Burzio s generalization - locality and island effects - antilocality: pro drop, that-t effect and postverbal subjects - ordering of adjectives and left branch extraction - prepositional phrase - noun phrase - verbal phrase - multiple subject constructions - anaphora.
Literature
  • CHOMSKY, Noam. The minimalist program. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995, 420 s. ISBN 0-262-53128-3. info
  • KAYNE, Richard S. The antisymmetry of syntax. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994, xv, 195 s. ISBN 0-262-11194-2. info
Language of instruction
Czech
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