Course Name	English Syntax
Credits	3
Professor(s)	Name	Kwangho Lee
	Affiliation	Dept. of English Language and Literature

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Objectives

It is designed to provide students with knowledge of Chomsky's Government & Binding Theory and Minimalism and to enable them to analyze syntactic phenomena of English and find out UG principles & parameters.

MAIN TEXTBOOK and FURTHER READINGS

Main Textbook:

Hornstein, Norber, Jairo Nubes, and Kleanthes K. Grohmann (2005).                                    Understanding Minimalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Further Readings:

Haegeman, Liliane  (2002). Introduction to Government & Binding Theory.                              Oxford: Blackwell.

Radford, Andrew (2009). English Sentence Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge                             University Press.

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

Assignments:

Problem Set 1 (Oct. 22); Syntax Problem Set 2 (Nov. 26)

Grading Scheme:

Attendance(10%), Mid-term Exam(30%), Final Exam(40%), Assignments(20%)

COURSE SCHEDULE

Course Outline

Week 1: What is Syntax? An Overview of Modern Syntactic Theories
Week 2: The Minimalist Project
Week 3: Some Architectural Issues in a Minimalist Setting
Week 4: Theta Domains
Week 5: Case Domains
Week 6: Movement and Minimality Effects
Week 7: Phrase Structure
Week 8: Mid-term Exam
Week 9: Linearization
Week 10: Binding Theory
Week 11: Feature Interpretability and Feature Checking
Week 12: Feature Interpretability and Feature Checking
Week 13: Derivational Economy
Week 14: Derivational Economy

Week 15: Final Exam

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel: 055-751-5886          e-mail: kngrhee@hanmail.net