Syntax
1) Categories and Structure
2) Categories of Words
3) Phrase Structure
4) Sentences
5) Tests for Phrase Structure
6) Complement Options
7) Complement Options for Verbs
8) Complement Options for Other
Categories
9) Complement Clauses
10)
Move
11)
Yes-No
Questions
12)
Deep Structure
and Surface Structure
13)
Do Insertion
14)
Wh
Movement
15)
Universal
Grammar and Parametric Variation
16)
Verb
Raising
17)
Some
Additional Structures
18)
Coordination
19)
Relative
Clauses
20)
Passives
21)
Linguistic
creativity: how many sentences can you produce?
22)
Syntax
vs. meaning
23)
Rules for building a basic grammar in
English, and what these rules have to say about grammaticality
24)
Extending
phrase structure rules (Modifiers and Recursion)
25)
Argument
structure: Modifiers vs. Arguments (necessary and unnecessary parts of a verb
phrase and the structure associated with them)
26)
Evidence
for recursion: VP and N deletion
27)
Ambiguity:
How can differences in meaning be explained by different syntactic structures?
28)
Word
order differences in the world's languages: how are they reflected in the
syntax?
29)
Transformational
Grammar (Movement): other word order patterns, question formation, auxiliary
movement
30)
Sentence
Diagramming
31)
Exercises