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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 24.953 (Spring 2003) 
  • Course Title:
  • Argument Structure and Syntax 
  • Course Level:
  • Graduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Linguistics and Philosophy 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Alec Marantz
    Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa

     
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 24.953 Argument Structure and Syntax



    Spring 2003




    Course Highlights


    One highlight of this course is the various recent analyses of "object." We will look at objects in a variety of constructions in English, the internal arguments of distransitive verbs in Japanese, and so forth.  See Miyagawa and Tsujioka in the readings for discussion related to Japanese.


    Course Description


    This course is a detailed investigation of the major issues and problems in the study of lexical argument structure and how it determines syntactic structure. Its empirical scope  is along three dimensions: typology, lexical class, and theoretical framework. The range of linguistic types include English, Japanese, Navajo, and Warlpiri. Lexical classes include those of Levin's English Verb Classes and others producing emerging work on diverse languages. The theoretical emphasis of this course is on structural relations among elements of argument structure.

     

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