Syntactic Analyticity:
the Other End of the Parameter
LSA.222
C.-T. James Huang, Mamoru Saito and Andrew
Simpson TR 8:15-9:55 In this course we shall focus on a number of
syntactic features commonly shared by East and
Southeast Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese,
Korean, Burmese and Thai), with an eye to
highlighting the analytic aspects of these
languages and considering them from a typological
and parametric perspective. The specific topics to
be covered include (a) argument structures and
their syntactic projections and (b) wh-questions
and other 'in-situ' dependency relations. We shall
consider these and other related phenomena in
detail, with the goal of treating them as
manifestations of deeper principles and parameters
of grammar. Syllabus ||||
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