Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 24.951 (Fall 2003) 
• Course Title:
• Introduction to Syntax 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Linguistics and Philosophy 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Michel DeGraff
  Prof. Idan Landau 
• Course Introduction:
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  24.951 Introduction to Syntax
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2003

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features a complete set of lecture notes and many downloadable assignments.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course is concerned with the concepts and principles which have been of central significance in the recent development of syntactic theory, with special focus on the "Government and Binding" (GB) / "Principles and Parameters" (P&P) / "Minimalist Program" (MP) approach.

  It is the first of a series of two courses (24.951 is taught during the Fall and 24.952 is taught in the Spring). This course deals mostly with phrase structure, argument structure and its syntactic expression, including "A-movement". Though other issues (e.g. wh-movement, antecedent-contained deletion, extraposition) may be mentioned during the semester, the course will not systematically investigate these topics in class until 24.952.

  The goal of the course is to understand why certain problems have been treated in certain ways. Thus, on many occasions a variety of approaches will be discussed, and the (recent) historical development of these approaches are emphasized.

  
  

  *Some translations represent previous versions of courses.