Guia docente 2023_24 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Unit 1: What is (a) language, linguistics and syntax	1.1. What is (a) language. Natural and artificial languages 1.2. What linguistics is about 1.3. What syntax is about 1.4. Tacit knowledge about English
Unit 2: Constituents and categories	2.1. Types: lexical and functional categories 2.2. Diagnostics: morphological, syntactic, phonological 2.3. Semantics and categories 2.4. Constituent structure: phrasal constituents 2.5. Relations among constituents
Unit 3: Phrase-structure rules and constituency tests	3.1. Phrase-structure rules 3.2. Constituency tests
Unit 4: X' theory	4.1. The structure of the clause 4.2. Adjuncts
Unit 5: Movement	5.1. Types of movement rules 5.2. Wh-movement
Unit 6: Binding	6.1. Pronouns and anaphors 6.2. R-expressions 6.3. Binding principles
Unit 7: The architecture of grammar	7.1. The lexicon 7.2. D-structure 7.3. S-structure 7.4. Phonological Form 7.5. Logical Form