Course Highlights
This course features an extensive list of readings and a complete set of lecture notes. Course assignments are also available.
Course Description
This course presents a comparison of different proposed architectures for the syntax module of grammar. The subject traces several themes across a wide variety of approaches, with emphasis on testable differences among models. Models discussed include ancient and medieval proposals, structuralism, early generative grammar, generative semantics, government-binding theory/minimalism, LFG, HPSG, TAG, functionalist perspectives and others.
Recommended Citation
For any use or distribution of these materials, please cite as follows:
David Pesetsky, course materials for 24.960 Syntactic Models, Spring 2006. MIT OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Downloaded on [DD Month YYYY].
