句法學

The characterization of human language under the generative framework since Chomsky (1957) consists of two major insights: it is a "biological" entity, and it operates in a "computational/generative" manner (i.e., it is precise and formally explicit). The focus of this course is the computational/generative aspect under this framework. If you would like to know more about the biological aspect (which would give you a wider perspective of linguistics), please take my course "Language & the Human Mind." The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to generative syntax (starting from 1957), from a cross-linguistic perspective. The course does not aim to make the students familiar with all the literature published within this theoretical framework, but rather to enable them to read this literature themselves, to understand it and to evaluate it independently. I do not attempt to present the full intricacy of today’s version of “the best theory,” so I forsake 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.

**本課程要求為碩班程度 (第一週小考 + 作業 + 期中考 + 期末考),主客觀條件無法投入的大學部同學會被當** **大學部同學請先修「語言與人類心智」再來選這門課** **第一週即有小考 (佔總成績 10%)**

Your final grade will be the cumulative result of the following: 10% = Quiz for the summer assignment 50% = Weekly homework 40% = Final (accumulative)

Barrie, Michael. 2022. Generative Syntax: A Cross-Linguistic Approach (Textbooks in Language Sciences). Berlin: Language Science Press. Barrie, Michael. 2023. Advanced Generative Syntax. Manuscript. Huang, C.-T. James. 2024. Lecture notes on syntactic Theory. Linguistic Summer Institute of Taiwan at National Taiwan Normal University.

地點

人社三館312

時間

Wednesday 14:00-16:00 or by appointment

聯絡方式

ctchou@nycu.edu.tw