LING3004 Senior seminar
Prof. Jesús Olguín-Martinez
Capstone Course. Sem 2, 6 credits
Course Description
Although formal and functional approaches have provided influential accounts of morphosyntactic phenomena, students are often introduced to these traditions separately. The primary goal of the seminar is to train students to identify the strengths and limitations of both approaches when investigating morphosyntax by using adverbial clauses as the main empirical domain. Adverbial clauses provide an ideal testing ground because they show intriguing interactions between linguistic features that have received attention in the formal and functional literature. Adverbial clauses constitute the empirical focus of the course. However, the analytical tools developed can be used for investigating a wide range of morphosyntactic phenomena not addressed in the course (e.g., relative clauses, coordination, clause-chaining, switch-reference constructions).
Prerequisite:
LING2050 Grammatical description
Note: For General Linguistics majors only.
Assessment:
100% coursework.
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