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Se­mi­nar: Gram­ma­ti­cal theo­ry

Room: Due to Co­ro­na on­line
(Mas­ter Lin­gu­is­tik, Modul 2: Theo­re­ti­sche Grund­la­gen II, 2 SWS)

Plea­se re­gis­ter via Mood­le.

Be­fo­re ta­king part in this cour­se you should re­fresh your know­ledge of (basic, de­scrip­ti­ve) syn­tax. You may con­sider ta­king the re­spec­ti­ve les­sons in the in­tro­duc­to­ry BA cour­se. Or the tur­o­ri­al of the BA cour­se.

Abs­tract

This lec­tu­re in­tro­du­ces into phra­se struc­tu­re grammars and its ex­ten­si­ons as well as va­rious gram­ma­ti­cal theo­ries like Go­vernment & Bin­ding, Ge­ne­ra­li­zed Phra­se Struc­tu­re Grammar (GPSG), Le­xi­cal Func­tio­nal Grammar (LFG), Ca­te­go­ri­al Grammar (CG), Head-​Driven Phra­se Struc­tu­re Grammar (HPSG), Con­st­ruc­tion Grammar (CxG), Tree Ad­joi­ning Grammar TAG), and De­pen­den­cy Grammar.

The main focus is on the tre­at­ment of active-​passive al­ter­na­ti­ons, local per­mu­ta­ti­on of phra­ses (aka scram­bling) and long di­stance de­pen­den­ci­es.

Apart from ad­dres­sing the em­pi­ri­cal ade­quacy of the re­spec­ti­ve theo­ries, it will be ex­ami­ned whe­ther the re­spec­ti­ve theo­ries are psy­cho­lingu­is­ti­cal­ly plau­si­ble, that is, whe­ther there are plau­si­ble ex­pl­a­na­ti­ons of lan­guage ac­qui­si­ti­on and pro­ses­sing phe­no­me­na.

Sli­des

Sli­des with me pre­sen­ting them are avail­able in Mood­le. Ver­si­on of 08.02.2022:

• Sli­des (PDF for viewing, 2.8M)
• Handout (PDF fro prin­ting, 1.0M)

Li­te­ra­tu­re

• Mül­ler, Ste­fan (2020). Gram­ma­ti­cal theo­ry: From trans­for­ma­tio­nal grammar to constraint-​based ap­proa­ches. 4th edn. (Text­books in Lan­guage Sci­en­ces 1). Ber­lin: Lan­guage Sci­ence Press.

Test exam

• Test exam