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Syntax of the Worldʼs languages: typological approaches to syntactic structure- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Haig
- Angaben
- Seminar
2 SWS, Schein
Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Seminar für das Aufbaumodul 2 und das Vertiefungsmodul im BA-Nebenfach "Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft", 6-8 ECTS. Seminar für das Mastermodul 1 "Systemlinguistik" sowie für den Erweiterungsbereich im MA "General Linguistics"
Zeit und Ort: Do 16:15 - 17:45, OK8/02.04
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- The lecture will be in English
- FlexNow-Anmeldung ab dem 01.04.
- Inhalt
- There are several theoretical approaches to analysing syntax; in this course we will take a data-driven and theory-neutral approach, based on a close examination of different phenomena from a range of different languages. Taking these as our point of departure, we will explore the relevance of a number of theoretical concepts from various typologically-oriented approaches to syntax, in particular Role and Reference Grammar, and Construction Grammar.
Participants will be expected to work on a particular phenomenon of their choice, using data from a language of their choice, and to present the findings in class as an oral presentation (and, depending on the credits required, in the form of a term paper).
Participants should look at the list of topics and let me know their preferences at the latest in the first week of term. It is possible (and likely) that more than one person will work on the same topic. Topics outside of this list may be considered: please contact me in advance if you wish to adopt a different topic.
Available topics:
The notion of "subjecthood" cross-linguistically
Valency-changing operations (passive, causative, applicative)
Alignment typology (accusative, ergative, split intransitive, Philippine-type languages)
Differential argument marking (Differential object and/or subject marking)
Inverse systems of argument indexing
Referential hierarchies
Strategies of clause linkage (subordination, coordination etc.)
Approaches to anaphor and pronominalization
Relative clauses
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Literature (selection
Anderson, Stephen R. 1976. On the notion of subject in ergative languages. Subject and Topic, ed. by Charles N. Li, 1–23. New York: Academic Press.
Bickel, Balthasar. 2011. Grammatical relations typology. The Oxford Handbook of Language Typology, ed. by Jae Jung Song. 399–444. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Comrie, Bernard. 1973. The Ergative: Variations on a Theme. Lingua 32: 239–253.
Croft, William. 2001. Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Culicover, Peter W. & Ray Jackendoff. 2005. Simpler Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dixon, R. M. W. 1995. Ergativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dryer, Martin. 2006. Descriptive theories, explanatory theories, and basic linguistic theory. Catching Language: The Standard Challenge of Grammar Writing, ed. by F. Ameka, A. Dench & N. Evans, 207–234. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Greenberg, Joseph H., ed. 1963. Universals of Language. London: MIT Press.
Haspelmath, Martin. 2004. Does linguistic explanation presuppose linguistic description? Studies in Language 28.554–79.
Keenan, Edward L. 1976. Towards a universal definition of subject. Subject and Topic, ed. by Charles N. Li, 303–333. New York: Academic Press.
Keenan, Edward L. 1976. Remarkable Subjects in Malagasy. In Li, Charles (ed.), Subject and Topic, 247-301. New York: Academic Press.
Kroeger, Paul. 2004. Analyzing syntax. A lexical-functional approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kroeger, Paul. 2005. Analyzing grammar. An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lehmann, Christian. 1988. Haiman, John & Thompson, Sandra A. (eds.), Clause combining in grammar and discourse. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, 181-225.
Van Valin, Robert. 2001. An introduction to syntax. Cambridge: CUP.
Van Valin, Robert D. 2005. Exploring the Syntax–Semantics Interface. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 8
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
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