Guia docente 2016_17 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contidos

Tema	Subtema
Unit 1: The scientific study of language	1.1. Linguistics as the science of language 1.2. From raw linguistic data to generalizations: Word order in English questions
Unit 2: Diagnostics for syntactic structure	2.1. Diagnosis for structure: constituency tests 2.2. X-Bar Theory: categories, Head Hypothesis, specifiers, complementation vs. adjunction 2.3. The Verb Phrase and the Sentence: A First Exploration
Unit 3: An introduction to lexical and functional categories	3.1. The structure of finite sentences 3.2. The structure of non-finite sentences 3.3. Syntactic operations: Merge and Move 3.4. Meaning relations and structure: Thematic roles 3.5. Multiple auxiliaries
Unit 4: Refining structures: From one to many subject positions	4.1. Some concepts: base vs. derived positions, adjunct scope 4.2. The VP-Internal Subject Hypothesis (VPIH) 4.3. Subject position(s) and auxiliaries
Unit 5: The periphery of the sentence	5.1. Summary of previous concepts 5.2. Constructing the periphery of the sentence: SAI, questions and complementisers 5.4. The periphery of non-finite clauses 5.5. Relative clauses
Unit 6: More on predicates	6.1. Summary of previous assumptions 6.2. A new functional category: Tense 6.3. Revising the NP: The DP Hypothesis