句法學
Formal Syntax
| 節 | 週一 |
|---|---|
5 13:20–14:10 | 句法學 F205 3 節連堂 |
6 14:20–15:10 | |
7 15:30–16:20 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to the mainline version of Government and Binding Theory, or GB-theory, using as a basis Noam Chomsky’s more recent writings. The aim of this course is not to make the students familiar with all the literature published within the GB framework, but rather to enable them to read this literature themselves, to understand it and to evaluate it independently. In other words, we have not attempted to present the full intricacy of today’s version of “the best theory,” and we have forsaken some points of formalization and of how details are resolved, in favor of stressing important ideas and questions and how they have developed. As a result, students will become acquainted with the history and general content of generative grammar and – most important in an ever-changing field – with how linguists actually develop their theories.
Transformational Grammar (by Andrew Radford; Cambridge University Press: 1988)
Lecture and Discussion
Your final grade will be the cumulative result of the following: Test for the summer assignment = 15% Weekly homework: 25% (2.5% X 10 = 25%, but only the top 10 will be counted) Mid-term: 30% Final: 30%
| 週次 | 主題 |
|---|---|
| 第 1 週 | Intro & Ch 1 the Chomskian perspective on language study; the lexicon and sentence structure |
| 第 2 週 | Ch 2 : 1-3 syntactic structure; the structure of phrases; the structure of sentences; structural relations; learnability and binary branching; features and category labels |
| 第 3 週 | Ch 3 Case theory |
| 第 4 週 | Ch 4 reflexives; anaphors; pronouns; referential expressions; binding theory; problems in the binding theory; NP types and features |
| 第 5 週 | Ch 5 NP types and features; circularity; non-overt categories |
| 第 6 週 | Ch 6 movement transformations; NP-movement; Burzio’s Generalization |
| 第 7 週 | Ch 6-7 levels of representation and principles of the grammar; subject and derived subjects; wh-movement; wh-phrases; the landing site of wh-movement |
| 第 8 週 | Ch 7 traces and wh-movement; subject movement; bounding theory; binding theory and traces of wh-movement; movement to the right in English |
| 第 9 週 | Midterm |
| 第 10 週 | Ch 8: 1-4 null elements in English; null elements in grammar; non-overt subjects; non-overt antecedents of wh-movement |
| 第 11 週 | Ch 8-9 parasitic gaps; the interpretation of quantifiers; wh-phrases and LF movement |
| 第 12 週 | Ch 9-10 the ECP; reconstruction |
| 第 13 週 | Ch 9-10 two notes on scope interaction between wh-operators and quantifiers; barriers |
| 第 14 週 | Ch 10-11 barriers |
| 第 15 週 | Ch 11-12 functional heads and head movement; |
| 第 16 週 | Ch 12 functional head and head movement; relativized minimality |
| 第 17 週 | Holiday |
| 第 18 週 | Final |
Introduction to Government and Binding Theory (required/by Liliane Haegeman; Basil Blackwell 1994)
- 時間
- Monday 10:00-12:00
- 聯絡方式
- E-mail: csliu@faculty.nctu.edu.tw Office Phone: 58114